Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas

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303 Chapter One 1. Texas Rangers, “Report on Attempted Escape, Huntsville, Texas, July 24-August 3, 1974. Houston, 1974. 2. Aline House, The Carrasco Tragedy (Waco: Texian Press, 1975), 1. 3. Ibid. 4. Linda Woodman, interview with author, November 27, 2000. 5. Carrasco tapes, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Archives & Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1999/113, audio 56. 6. Ibid. 7. Huntsville Item, May 29, 1983, 1. 8. Houston Post, “Carrasco threatens hostages with bomb; demands 3 vests,” July 31, 1974, 1. 9. Ronald W. Robinson, Prison Hostage: the Siege of the Walls Prison in Huntsville (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997), 20. 10. Houston Chronicle, “‘Won’t Give in To Carrasco’ Says Prison official,” July 25, 1974, 1. 11. Ibid. 12. House, Carrasco, 1. 13. Carrasco tapes, 57. 14. Howell H. Husbands, interview with author, March 6, 2001. 15. Huntsville Item, March 19, 1976, 1. 16. Ward James Estelle, Jr., Papers, Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University, College Station. 17. Ibid. 18 Austin American-Statesman, August 6, 1974. 19. Ward James Estelle, Jr., interview with author, October 12, 2000. 20. Ann Fleming, interview with author, December 3, 2001. Notes 304 Chapter Two 1. Carrasco tapes, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Archives & Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1999/113, audio 3. 2. Ibid, 75. 3. Ibid, 53. 4. Temple Daily Telegram, July 7, 1974. 5. Robert E. Wiatt, presentation (FBI Seminar, Victoria, TX, October 8, 1974). 6. Robert E. Wiatt, interview with author, May 23, 2000. 7. Ibid. 8. Steve Roach, interview with author, January 16, 2001. 9. Wayne Scott, interview with author, November 14, 2000. 10. Huntsville Item, March 19, 1976, 1. 11. Ward James Estelle, Jr., interview with author, October 17, 2000. 12. Ben Proctor, Just One Riot (Austin: Eakin Publications, 1991), 107. 13. Daniel V. McKaskle, interview with author, April 18, 2002. 14. James Willet, interview with author, August, 2003. 15. Ibid. 16. Howell H. Husbands, interview with author, March 6, 2001. 17. Estelle, interview, October 17, 2001. 18. Carrasco tapes, 24. 19. Bruce Thaler, interview with author, December 15, 2000. 20. McKaskle, interview, April 18, 2002. 21. Wilson McKinney, Fred Carrasco: The Heroin Merchant (Austin: Heidelberg Publishers, Inc., 1975), 1. 22. Tommy Miller, “Carrasco’s Conflict With the Law Began 15 Years Ago With a Fight,” Houston Chronicle, July 25, 1974, 4. 23. Proctor, Just One Riot, 106. 24. Marylyn Schwartz, Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1974, 8A. Chapter Three 1. Joseph O’Brien, interview with author, February 22, 2001. 2. Charlene Warnken, “Prison chaplain, former Houstonian, ‘Keeps Cool,’” Houston Post, July 26, 1974. 3. Bob Chiles, “ Dedication leads chaplain to volunteer as hostage,” Dallas Times Herald, n.d. 4. O’Brien, interview, February 22, 2001. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO 305 7. Bruce Thaler, interview with author, December 15, 2000. 8. Ward James Estelle, Jr., interview with author, October 17, 2000. 9. Tom McGowan, “Some Would Never Survive,” San Antonio Light, September 4, 1974, 1. 10. Howell H. Husbands, interview with author, March 6, 2001. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid. 13. Howell H. Husbands, “Escape Attempt of Inmates” (report, Texas Department of Corrections, n.d.), 1. 14. Howell H. Husbands, interview with author, March 6, 2001. 15. Ibid. 16. Husbands, “Escape” , 1. 17. Ann Fleming, interview with author, December 3, 2001. 18. Aline House, The Carrasco Tragedy (Waco: Texian Press, 1975), 1. 19. Linda Woodman, interview with author, November 27, 2000. 20. Carrasco tapes, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1999/113 audio 57. 21. Ibid. 22. Aline House, The Carrasco Tragedy (Waco: Texian Press, 1975), 1. 23. Carrasco tapes, 75. 24. Woodman, interview, November 27, 2000. 25. Huntsville Item, “City confident,” July 24, 1974, 1. 26. Ibid. 27. George Lewis, interview with author, June 23, 2002. Chapter Four 1. Howell H. Husbands, “Escape Attempt of Inmates” (report, Texas Department of Corrections, n.d.), 1. 2. Howell H. Husbands, interview with author, March 6, 2001. 3. Ward James Estelle, Jr., interview with author, October 17, 2000. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Joseph O’Brien, interview with author, February 22, 2001. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. Robert E. Wiatt, interview with author, May 23, 2000. 11. Aline House, The Carrasco Tragedy (Waco: Texian Press, 1975), 1. 12. Husbands, interview, March 6, 2001. NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR 306 13. O’Brien, interview, February...