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Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison, and a federal prison until 1963. Later, in 1972,...
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Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
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- Jan 6, 1939
Robert Franklin Stroud
Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a Federal American prisoner who reared and sold birds and became an ornithologist. Despite his nickname, he actually only kept birds at...
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- Nov 21, 1963
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- Dec 19, 1942
Morton Sobell
Morton Sobell (born April 11, 1917) is a former spy for the Soviet Union. Sobell was an American engineer working for General Electric and Reeves Electronics on military and government contracts. He was found guilty of spying for the Soviets (along...
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- 1969
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- 1951
John Giles
John Knight Giles was an American criminal sent to Alcatraz in 1945 and a year later attempted escape from Alcatraz. Giles was arrested in 1945 for murder. A year later on July 31, 1946 he attempted escape from Alcatraz and made it all the way to...
Floyd Hamilton
Floyd Hamilton worked for Bonnie and Clyde before being sent to Alcatraz. Hamilton worked with robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as their driver and committed crimes with them. As soon as the couple were executed in 1934 he was sent to Alcatraz...
Alvin Karpis
Alvin Francis "Creepy Karpis" Karpowicz (August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979), born Alvin Karpowicz, nicknamed "Creepy" for his sinister smile, was a noted American criminal known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last ...
Machine Gun Kelly
George Kelly Barnes aka George "Machine Gun" Kelly aka George R. Kelly (July 18, 1895 — July 17, 1954 or July 18, 1954) was a notorious American criminal during the prohibition era. His crimes included bootlegging, armed robbery and, most...
Henri Young
Henri Theodore Young (born 1918) was a prisoner at Alcatraz who tried to escape with two other inmates, Arthur Barker and Rufus McCain and is best known for being the main character in the movie Murder in the First.
Young was born in Kansas City,...
Sam Shockley
Richard Sam Shockley Jr. (January 12, 1909 – December 3, 1948) was an inmate at Alcatraz prison who participated in the Battle of Alcatraz in 1946.
Shockley was the son of Richard "Dick" Shockley and Anna Bearden . He was born in Arkansas City,...
Rufus McCain
Rufus Roy McCain (died 1940) was a prisoner at Alcatraz who attempted escape with Henri Young and Arthur Barker. On the ninth of January 13, 1939, McCain with Henri Young and Arthur Barker attempted escape from The Rock. Shots started to fire on...
James C. Lucas
James C. Lucas (1912 - 1963) was an American criminal who served a life sentence in Alcatraz. He was part of an attempted escape from the prison in 1938, but is best known for attacking Al Capone in the prison's laundry room on June 23, 1936.
Lucas...
Arthur Barker
Arthur R. "Doc" Barker (June 4, 1899 – January 13, 1939) was an American criminal, the son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang along with Alvin Karpis.
Arthur Barker, better known as Doc Barker, was born in Aurora, Missouri to George...
