Alcatraz Library was a library for inmates at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. It was located at the end of D-Block. On entering Alcatraz, every inmate...
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United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾas] "the gannet") or the Rock, was...
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Alcatraz Island (/ˈælkəˌtræz/) is a small island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco in San Francisco Bay, California, near the Golden Gate Strait...
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Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 American biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. It is a largely fictionalized...
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Robert Stroud (redirect from The Birdman of Alcatraz)
Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner, and author who has...
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The Occupation of Alcatraz (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971) was a 19-month long occupation of Alcatraz Island and its prison complex, then classified...
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Escape from Alcatraz is a 1963 non-fiction book, written by San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Campbell Bruce, about the history of Alcatraz Penitentiary...
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federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, off San Francisco. It is located at the southeastern end of the Main Cellblock, next to Alcatraz Lighthouse. The 3-floor...
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Richard Oakes (activist) (section Alcatraz occupation)
occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. The Occupation of Alcatraz is credited...
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and her mother Draulin, Alcatraz's uncle Kazan, and Alcatraz's cousin Australia. Alcatraz is travelling through the library alone and he is often pestered...
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It is the fourth book in the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series featuring the protagonist Alcatraz Smedry. Alcatraz and his companions head off...
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Al Capone (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
superficially wounded by fellow Alcatraz inmate James C. Lucas. Due to his good behavior, Capone was permitted to play banjo in the Alcatraz prison band, the Rock...
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Alvin Karpis (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
could be captured. He also spent the longest time as a federal prisoner at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, serving twenty-six years. Karpis was born to Lithuanian...
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The Dark Talent (redirect from Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent)
and subsections of the ultimate library among the nooks and crannies of the cave, Alcatraz, Grandpa Smedry, and Alcatraz's uncle Kazan, along with the Crystin...
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Al Capone Does My Shirts (category Alcatraz Island in fiction)
from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a new job as an electrician and a prison guard in the well-known Alcatraz prison. The book was...
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Red Power movement (redirect from Alcatraz-Red Power Movement)
movement was involved in throughout the era included the Occupation of Alcatraz, the Trail of Broken Treaties, the Occupation of Wounded Knee, and numerous...
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Whitey Bulger (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
briefly transferred to maximum security at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California. During his time at Alcatraz, he kept in shape through weightlifting...
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David Copperfield (illusionist) (redirect from International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts)
(1984), walking through the Great Wall of China (1986), escaping from Alcatraz prison (1987), the disappearance of an Orient Express train dining car...
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San Francisco Public Library is the public library system of the city and county of San Francisco in United States. The Main Library is located at Civic...
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Grace Thorpe (section Alcatraz occupation)
Grace Thorpe joined a group of Native activists in their occupation of Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco. This occupation called national...
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book in the Alcatraz Series following Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians in 2007 and Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones in 2008. Alcatraz Versus the...
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Philip Grosser (category Inmates of U.S. Military Prison, Alcatraz Island)
imprisoned in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary for refusing to fight in World War I. Grosser is notable for writing one of the first exposés of Alcatraz Prison...
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the police thriller Dirty Harry (1971) and the prison drama Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He also directed John Wayne's final film, the Western The Shootist...
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origins during the Occupation of Alcatraz in 1970; leaving a shell which still remains. The club had a small bar, library, large dining and dance floor,...
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Reese to rob a major crime operation, ambushing the courier on deserted Alcatraz Island. After counting the money, Reese shoots Walker, leaving him for...
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Yale University. June 12 – Alcatraz escape attempt: Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from the Alcatraz Island prison in the United...
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November 21 – Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890) November 22 Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau...
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Earl of Moray in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); the Warden in Escape from Alcatraz (1979); Dr. Paul Ruth in Scanners (1981); Edward I of England in Braveheart...
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at Boston Children's Hospital. 1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. 1944 – World War II: The Axis...
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action-war film Where Eagles Dare (1968), the prison film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film In the Line...
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