HomeMy WebLinkAboutEXPLORE PRESS 05_19_08Author to talk about
1974 prison siege
Bryan author William T. Harper
is expected to speak Wednesday
about the 1974 Carrasco prison
siege at a lunch lecture spon-
sored by College Station.
The Exploring History discus-
sion will be at 11:30 a.m. at the
College Station Conference Cen-
ter. Lunch is $5. ,
Harper is the author of Eleven
Days in Hell, a chronicle of the
1974 prison siege in which afor-
mer drug boss, Fred Carrasco,
and two accomplices, took over
the prison library in the Walls
Unit of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice.
Sixteen people were held
hostage for 11 days. Two female
hostages were killed, and ulti-
mately Carrasco and another
captor, Rudy Dominguez, were
fatally shot in a police standoff.
To reserve a seat at the lec-
ture, a-mail Anne Boykin at
aboykin@cstx.gov.°