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Eleven Days in Hell : The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas by William T. Harper (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of North Texas Press
ISBN-101574411802
ISBN-139781574411805
eBay Product ID (ePID)30756579
Product Key Features
Book TitleEleven Days in Hell : the 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), General, Penology
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, True Crime, Social Science, History
AuthorWilliam T. Harper
Book SeriesCrime and Criminal Justice Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-004121
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberNo. 3
Dewey Decimal365/.9764169
SynopsisFrom one o'clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o'clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas' Huntsville State Prison. The ring-leader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in South Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. employing the aid of two other inmates, he took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage in the prison library. Demanding bulletproof helmets and vests, he planned to use the hostages as shields for his escape. Negotiations began immediately with prison warden H. H. Husbands and W. J. Estelle, Jr., director of the Texas Department of Corrections. The Texas Rangers, the Department of Public Safety, and the FBI arrived to assist as the media descended on Huntsville. When one of the hostages suggested a moving structure of chalkboards padded with law books to absorb bullets, Carrasco agreed to the plan. others to the moving barricade. While the target was en route to an armored car, Estelle had his team blast it with fire hoses. In a violent end to the standoff, Carrasco committed suicide, one of his two accomplices was killed (the other later executed), and two hostages were killed by their captors.
LC Classification NumberHV9475.T42H855 2004
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