Description : MICHAEL SMITH INTERVIEW. SIDE A  WHEN I CAME TO ATTICA I HAD APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS SERVICE AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER, AND MY OBSERVATIONS WERE THAT THE INMATES WERE DIS-SATISFIED WITH THE SYSTEM. DON NOBLE SHOWED ME A LIST OF DEMANDS THEY HAD PREPARED FOR THE GOVERNOR.
Description : MICHAEL SMITH INTERVIEW. SIDE A INITIALLY THERE WAS A LOT OF CHAOS IN THE TAKEOVER. I WAS AMAZED AT HOW EASILY THIS FORTRESS FELL.THERE WAS NO PLAN, I HAD NEVER BEEN     INSTRUCTED ON HOW TO HANDLE A RIOT SITUATION, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. IT WAS AMAZING TO ME
Description : MICHAEL SMITH INTERVIEW. SIDE A INMATES & CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS LACKED COMMUNICATION, PARTLY BECAUSE OF  THE DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS FROM WHICH THEY CAME. OFFICERS FOR THE MOST  PART WERE FROM RURAL COMMUNITIES OR HAD GROWN UP THERE, EVEN THOUGH IT WEREN'T AS OUTWARD AS KU KLUX KLANSMEN
Description : MICHAEL SMITH INTERVIEW.  SIDE A I WAS LED BLINDFOLDED TO THE TOP OF THE CATWALK, & ALTHOUGH I WAS      BLINDFOLDED, THE CONVERSATION OF THE INMATES THAT SURROUNDED ME        INDICATED THAT THERE WERE SHARP-SHOOTERS WITH GUNS THAT WERE ON THE ROOFTOPS LOCATED AROUND US.
Description : MICHAEL SMITH INTERVIEW. SIDE B DURING THE SUMMER OF 1971, AN INMATE WHO I HAD COME TO KNOW QUITE WELL SHOWED ME A LIST OF DEMANDS WHICH WAS STILL IN THE PREPARTORY STAGE    AND HE ASKED ME TO REVIEW THESE DEMANDS & TELL HIM WHAT I THOUGHT