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brass to get the warden off his ass.”’ And then he says, “We're now allowed to shower every day, and we are allowed to exercise, and we want to thank you. And now I'd like to talk to you about the library here,” and he goes into that. And then there's a post script, and the post script was magnificent. It said: “I'm sorry about the bombings in your district. I will try to have them moved elsewhere.” Right? Isn't that terrific? Now, Melville was killed up in Attica. He was one of those who was killed -- allegedly (I don't know what the facts were) he was going to blow up someone there during the melee and they shot him. Who knows? I don't really know. But that was the story. And that's the story.

Q:

He was really a compulsive bomber then.

Koch:

Yes, a compulsive bomber, right.

Q:

This concludes the interview January 6, 1976 with Congressman Koch.





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