Papers On Alcatraz Prison

Alcatraz was a high security federal prison, it was a prison where all the worst criminals from all over the world were sent and also the most insane ones. Alcatraz Island was built in the chilly waters of California’s most difficult and dangerous felons during its years of operation from 1934 ( That's when it was built) to 1963 (That’s when it was closed). It held the most insane criminals to the most smartest criminals. Alcatraz Island was a maximum high-security federal prison that was 1.25 million (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California.” Al Capone”,”Roy G. Gardner”. These two were some of the people who were sent to Alcatraz for murder,robbery, kidnapping, and rape. Al capone was a famous gangster who attained fame during
the Prohibition era as the co founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign was short lived when he had died at the age of 33 years old of cardiac arrest on January 25, 1947 on Palm Island. Roy G. Gardner, he was a famous bank robber who was well known throughout the Pacific coast in the 1920s. During His career, he stole over $350,000 in cash and securities. He also had a $5,000 reward bounty over his head three times in a year during his sensuality career. He was also known as “The last Great American Train Robber” and “ King of the Escape Artist”. In 1921 he was the “Most wanted Gangster”. He died on January 10, 1940 from suicide, he had put cyanide into a glass of acid and inhaling poison fumes in his San Francisco hotel room.

On 1943 James Boarman, Harold Martin Brest, Floyd Garland Hamilton, and Fred John Hunter tied escaping the dreadful Alcatraz.
They had somehow managed to cut window bars in the industrial building’s mat shop without being noticed and assembled four cans that contained army uniforms and could serve as a flotation device for the chilly waters that surrounded the Alcatraz Prison Island. They overpowered 2 guards and bounded them as well as gagged them then escaped through the window, leaving behind 2 of the 4 cans. Unfortunately for them one of the overpowered guards managed to get his whistle loose and the other managed to slip his gag loose, then the guard who had his mouth free blow the first guards whistle alerting all the other guards and towers. The tower guard opened fire on the prisoners. Boarman was hit by gunfire and floated on the water unconscious, supported by the breast. As the other prisoners launch picked up the Breast, he let go of Boarman, who sank beneath the surface of the water. Boarman body was never found after that. Hunter who had injured his back and hands in the escape attempt, gave up on swimming and sought out refuge in a nearby cave, but he was later discovered 2 hours later by guards. Hamilton was wrongly assumed by the guards to have been hit by the gunfire along with Boarman and his body to have similar sunk, but had actually been hiding in the same cave as hunter. Two days later, he climbed back up on the cliff and through the same window from
which he had jumped, then hid under a pile of material in the storage room. He was found there the next morning.

Alcatraz Island was occupied by Native American activists for the first time on March 8, 1964. The event was reported by, among others, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner.
The occupiers, who stayed on the island for nearly two years, demanded the island's facilities be adapted and new structures built for an Indian education center, ecology center and cultural center.
The American Indians claimed the island by provisions of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux they said the treaty promised to return all retired, abandoned or out-of-use federal lands. Today Alcatraz is a well known prison throughout the world, and has attracted many visitors as well. Tourism is very popular in San Francisco. Many business have made money from taking people to see the hunter Island of Alcatraz, as well as movies. There are lots of popular movies out there that are know for trying to imitate Alcatraz. For Example there is Escape from Alcatraz” (1979): Starring Clint Eastwood, the movie dramatizes the real-life 1962 escape of inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. The numbers you see today above the cell doors were added for the movie. Birdman of Alcatraz” (1962): Burt Lancaster plays real-life inmate Robert Stroud as a convicted murderer turned ornithologist, although Stroud never had birds at Alcatraz — he kept canaries when he was at Leavenworth. “The Rock” (1996): Though set on, well, The Rock, very little of the movie was actually filmed on Alcatraz. “If you see that movie, it doesn’t look anything like this,” says Kelcie Taylor, historic interpreter for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, which leads
the evening tours. Starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery, the movie tells a fictional tale of rogue commandos taking over the famous prison.“Point Blank” (1967): This was the first film shot at Alcatraz after the prison was closed. Lee Marvin and John Vernon star in this stylish thriller involving marital affairs and a vengeful rampage. “Skidoo” (1968): Yes, even Groucho Marx showed up on Alcatraz for this comic Otto Preminger romp, along with Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing. It has something to do with a retired gangster, a mob kingpin named God, a hit on a fellow mobster and hippies dropping acid. Who knew?