This collection contains newspaper articles from the Huntsville Item about the Huntsville Prison Siege that lasted from July 24th to August 3rd, 1974. Fred Carrasco, a life sentence inmate, smuggled firearms into his cell, and with two other inmate accomplices, he took fifteen hostages, 11 being prison workers and 4 being inmates. The convicts walked the hostages to an escape car they had arranged, but officers and FBI agents shot them with a fire hose, compelling the convicts to kill two hostages and then for Carrasco to apparently kill himself. The other two convicts were sentenced to death row and the siege would become the longest prison siege in US history.

1/1: Newspapers Released While Siege Occurred July 24, 1974 - August 3, 1974

1/2: Newspapers Released Post- Siege August 4, 1974 - September 27 1974

1/3: Memorial of Those Who Passed During Siege

1/4: Correspondence to Receive the Collection September 2004