About

The archive at the center of this project was part of the evidence collected by the State of New York after the rebellion and retaking at Attica Prison in September of 1971.

It proves the state inflicted wanton murder and mayhem in D Yard, so the material was hidden away for years, until Elizabeth Fink found it in an unorganized warehouse owned by the state. In her capacity as a lawyer for Attica Brothers Legal Defense she had the material moved to her office in Brooklyn, where she would use some of it in the civil trials filed by ABLD.

It remained in her possession until 2014 when Michael Hull began digitizing it in small batches. Fink died in 2015, just one month after sitting for an in-depth interview with Hull. During their last conversation she was in a hospital bed in great pain, but still urging him to make sure the archive would eventually be available online to anyone who doesn’t know the truth of that terrible day.

When Fink died, Hull took control of what material he had not already digitized and began the long process of finishing the archive.

Today the physical material is housed at the David R. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University and Hull oversees the digital archive. He has given it to historians, filmmakers, and other interested people at no cost.

This website is the final piece of the puzzle and the last promise Hull has left to keep to his dear friend Liz. If you have questions or would like to have immediate access to the entire archive, please contact him at:

atticamassacre@gmail dot com

The full archive is nearly 1TB of digital material, so the easiest way to share it is on a new hard drive that can be formatted for use on Mac or Windows machines and sent by mail.

The documentary film Betrayal at Attica on HBOMax was directed by Hull and is built from the archive and Fink’s final interview.