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Riot At Pendelton Brig
About 200 brig inmates at Camp Pendelton rioted for two hours Sunday ... September 14, 1969, and were put down by tear gas, a Marine spokesman said. One guard was hospitalized and four inmates suffered equal faith due to physical injuries.
Several guards and prisoners were affected by the tear gas and had to be briefly hospitalized. This was the third riot at the Pendelton Brig this year. The last one happened when Congressional investigators were looking into charges of massive brutality by the brig guards published in two naational magazines.
Duck Power, vol. 1, no. 4