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1974 huntsville prison siege
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july 24 to aggust 3 1974
He was also suspected in the murder of dozens of people in Mexico and Texas.[1] Having smuggled pistols and ammunition into the prison, he and two other convicts took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage.[
At the precise moment that a one o’clock work bell sounded, Carrasco walked up a ramp to the third-story library and forced several prisoners out at gunpoint. When two guards tried to go up the ramp, Carrasco fired at them. His two accomplices, who were also armed, immediately joined him in the library.[
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Over the next several days the convicts made a number of demands, such as tailored suits, dress shoes, toothpaste, cologne, walkie-talkies and bulletproof helmets, all of which were provided promptly
Huntsville Prison Siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974 at the Huntsville Unit or the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas
Having smuggled pistols and ammunition into the prison, he and two other convicts took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage.[1]
With the approval of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, an armored getaway car was rolled into the prison courtyard. Carrasco claimed that they were planning to flee to Cuba and appeal to Fidel Castro
After a grueling eleven-day standoff, the convicts finally made their desperate escape attempt just before 10 PM on Saturday August 3, 1974. They moved out of the library toward the waiting vehicle in a makeshift shield consisting of legal books taped to mobile blackboards that was later dubbed the “Trojan Taco”. Inside the shield were the three convicts and four hostages, while eight other hostages ringed the exterior of the “taco”.[
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The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history
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