Berkeley, CA,... S.A.: Heyday Books, 1992
Earle, Alice Morse, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
Public Domain Archive, 1896 (used extensive quotes from the Pillory reference)
Eldredge, Zoeth S. The March of Portola' and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco / Includes Log Of The San Carlos & Other Original Documents. Transcribed and Annotated By E.J. Molera.
California: CA Promotion Committee 1909
Freedman, Marlene. Alcatraz “No Good for Nobody”
California: Smith Novelty Company, 1974
Friedman, Lawrence Meir. Crime and Punishment in American History
New York: Basic Books, 1993
Fuller, James, and Yumi, Gay. Alcatraz: Federal Penitentiary, 1934-1963
California: Asteron Productions, 1985
Gaddis, Thomas E. Birdman of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud
New York: Random House, 1955
Gaddis, Thomas E. Unknown Men Of Alcatraz
Oregon: New Gate Publishing Company, 1977
George, Linda. Alcatraz (Cornerstones of Freedom Series)
Connecticut: Children's Press, 1998
Godwin, John. Alcatraz 1868-1963
New York: Pocket Books, Inc. 1964
Gordon, Dan. Murder In The First (The Story of Henri Young)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995
Gregory, George H. Alcatraz Screw: My Years as a Guard in America’s Most Notorious Prison
Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2002
Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names / The Origin And Etymology Of Current Geographical Names
California: University of California; Berkeley Press; 1960/1962
Hart, Eugene R. A Guide to the California Gold Rush
California: Freewheel, 1993
Heaney, Frank & Machado, Gay. Inside the Walls of Alcatraz
California: Bull Publishing, 1987
Howard Clark. Six Against the Rock
New York: The Dial Press, 1977
Hurley, Donald J. Alcatraz Island: Maximum Security
California: Fog Bell Enterprises, 1989
Hurley, Donald. Alcatraz Island Memories
California: Fog Bell Enterprises, 1987
Johnston, James A. Alcatraz Prison and the Men Who Live There.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949
Johnston, James A. Prison Life is Different.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937
Karpis, Alvin as told to Robert Livesey. On the Rock: Twenty-five Years in Alcatraz
New York and Toronto: Beaufort, 1980
Kemble, John Haskle. San Francisco Bay – A Pictorial Maritime History
New York: Bonanza Books, 1957
Kirkpatrick, Ernest E. Voices of Alcatraz
Texas: The Naylor Company, 1947
Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1972
Lageson, Ernest B. Alcatraz Justice – The Rock’s Famous Murder Trial
California: Creative Arts Book Company, 2002
Lageson, Ernest B. Battle at Alcatraz, A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock
Omaha, NE: Addicus Books, 1999
Landesco, John. Organized Crime in Chicago
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968
Martini, John A. Alcatraz at War
California: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, 2002
Martini, John A. Fortress Alcatraz – Guardian of the Golden Gate
Hawaii: Pacific Monograph, 1990
May, Antoinette. Haunted Houses of California
California: Wide World Publishing, 1990, 1993
Murray, George. The Legacy of Al Capone: Portraits and Annals of Chicago's Public Enemies
New York: Putnam, 1975
Needham, Ted, & Needham, Howard. Alcatraz.
California: Celestial Arts, 1976
Ness, Eliot. The Untouchables
New York: Messner, 1957
Nichols, Nancy Ann. San Quentin – Inside the Walls
California: San Quentin Museum Press, 1991
Odier, Pierre. Rock: A History Of Alcatraz The Fort/The Prison
California: L'Image Odier, 1982
Presnall, Judith Janda. Life on Alcatraz (The Way People Live Series)
California: Lucent Books, 2001
Quillen, Jim. Alcatraz from Inside, The Hard Years, 1942-1952.
California: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, 1991
Redden, Clifford P. I Survived Alcatraz Twice: America's Notorious Flash Bandit
Pennsylvania: [Self Published], 1995
Ruth, David E. Inventing the Public Enemy: the Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Schoenberg, Robert J. Mr. Capone: the Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone
New York: Morrow, 1992
Sobell, Morton. On Doing Time
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974
Stanger, Frank M., and Brown, Alan K. Who Discovered the Golden Gate?
California: San Mateo Historical Association, 1969
Stroud, Robert Franklin. Stroud’s Digest on the Diseases of Birds
Stuller, Jay. Alcatraz – The Prison (Essay originally printed in Smithsonian Magazine)
California: Golden Gate National Parks Association, 1998
Swisher, Carl Brent, Editor. Selected Papers of Homer Cummings, Attorney General of the United States, 1933-1939.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939
Thompson, Erwin N. The Rock: A History of Alcatraz Island, 1847-1972
Denver: US Department of the Interior, 1979
Thompson, Leon (Whitey). Last Train to Alcatraz (alternately titled Rock Hard)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988
Trafzer, Clifford E. California Indians and the Gold Rush
California: Sierra Oaks Publishing Company, 1989
Williams, Nathan Glenn. From Alcatraz to the Whitehouse
Washington: Willjoy Publishing, 1994
Wlodarski, Robert and Anne; Kouri, Michael. Haunted Alcatraz
California: Ghost Publishing, 1998
MOTION PICTURES
Alcatraz Island, Warner Brothers, 1937
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story, NBC-TV (Original Air Date: Nov. 5-6, 1980)
Birdman of Alcatraz, United Artists, 1962
Cell 2455, Death Row, Columbia Pictures, 1955
Chain Gang, Columbia Pictures, 1959
Duffy of San Quentin, Warner Brothers, 1954
Escape from Alcatraz, Paramount Pictures, 1979
Escape from San Quentin, Columbia Pictures, 1957
Murder in the First,
Prison Train, Equity, 1938
Riot in Cell Block 11, Allied Artists, 1954
San Quentin, RKO, 1946 (Not a remake of the 1937 film)
San Quentin, Warner Brothers, 1937
Six Against the Rock, NBC-TV (Original Air Date: May 18, 1987)
MAGAZINES
Cummings, Homer. Why Alcatraz is a Success
Collier’s Magazine, 1939
Esslinger, Michael. Alcatraz – A Brief History
Crime Magazine, 2000
Harper & Brothers. San Francisco
Harpers Monthly Magazine, 1883
Heroux, Harold. Alcatraz Escape! Secrets of the Island’s Most Baffling Mystery.
True Detective Mysteries, Vol 30. NO. 6, 1938
O’Neil, Paul. Prodigious Intellect in Solitary (Story of Robert Stroud)
Life Magazine – Reprinted in the Los Angeles Mirror, 1961
Parker, Gitta & Billy Woodfield (Photographer). Children on Alcatraz
Collier’s Magazine, 1954
Secrist, W.G. & Kelliher, Dan T. House of Living Hell. A True Picture of Alcatraz.
Liberty Magazine, 1936
Staff Writer. Inside Alcatraz: Visit "The Rock"
Gold Star Graphic, 1974
Stroud, Robert (As told to Joseph A. Duhamel with Michael Spivak) My 53 Years in Jail!
Saga Magazine, 1963
Young, Henri (Assembled & Edited by W.A. Swanberg). I Saw Hell Break Loose at Alcatraz.
Inside Detective Magazine, 1941
FILM DOCUMENTARIES
Al Capone – Scarface
A&E Biography
A&E Television Networks, 1995
Alcatraz - America’s Toughest Prison
TMS WNT Independent Films, 1977 (MPI Release)
Alcatraz - The Big House Series
The History Channel
A&E Television Networks, 1998
Alcatraz – The Final Sentence
Huckleberry Films, 1988
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary 1934 – 1963
Asteron Productions, 1986
Simitar Entertainment
Beneath Alcatraz
Michael Hoff Productions
A La Carte Communications, 2000
BreakOut
Michael Hoff Productions
A La Carte Communications, 1997
Dungeons of Alcatraz
Michael Hoff Productions
A La Carte Communications, 2002
Eastern State Penitentiary - The Big House Series
The History Channel
A&E Television Networks, 1997
Escapes from Alcatraz – The True Stories
Michael Hoff Productions
A La Carte Communications, 2000
Leavenworth - The Big House Series
The History Channel
A&E Television Networks, 1997
Public Enemies on the Rock
Michael Hoff Productions
A La Carte Communications, 1997
Return to Alcatraz – Secrets of the Rock
Acorn Media Publishing
A La Carte Communications, 1994
Secret Passages –Alcatraz
Jaffe Productions
The History Channel, June 17, 2002
Secrets of Alcatraz
Golden Gate National Park Association
A La Carte Communications, 1992
Secrets of the Gold Rush
Michael Hoff Productions
A La Carte Communications, 1994
Sing Sing Prison - The Big House Series
The History Channel
A&E Television Networks, 1998
Interviews — Lectures — In-Person Programs
Alcatraz Former Inmates
Dale Stamphill, Morton Sobell, Tom Kent, John Dekker, Willie Radkay, Leon “Whitey” Thompson, Glenn Nathan Williams, Robert Luke, Jim Quillen, Ben Rayborn, Darwin Coon, Herbert “Lucky” Juelich, and Jerie Bremmeyer.
Correctional Officers
Philip R. Bergen, Clifford Fish, George DeVincenzi, Ned Ubben, Jerry Wheeler, John Robinson, Frank Heaney, John Hernon, Irving Levinson, Al Bloomquist, James Dukes, John McGoran, Joe Landers, Louis Nelson, Bill Long, Pat Mahoney, Larry Quilligan, Dale Cox, Orrin Maybee, Kingston Witchez, Robert E. Sutter, and Father Bernie Bush.
Former Residents and Correctional Staff / Inmate Relatives
Chuck Stucker, Bob Orr, Thomas Reeves, Bud Hart, Joyce Ritz, Herb Faulk, Don Bowden, John Brunner, Dick Fisher, Kathryn O’Brien, Larry Boyd, Jean Comerford, Harold Clark, Nancy Bertelsen, Ernest Lageson, Agnes Roberts, Phyllis Panter, Jerry Casey, Michael Walter, Cliff Mickleson, Betty Horvath, Ray Stewart, Stanley Stewart, Robert Stites, Jolene Babyak, Renee Keith, Nielen Dickens, and Dena Freeman.
Photography and Illustration Credits
The primary source for prisoner catalog photographs, letters, documents and illustrations are courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration and/or United States Library of Congress Historic Records Collection. Additional sources were used for a variety of the images included in this publication. Specific catalog collection numbers / facility locations or to associate photographs with their specific archive locations, please refer to the print version of this publication.
Images in this collection were all used by permission from the following archival sources:
Al Capone Museum, Mario Gomes Collection
Alcatraz Alumni Association, Courtesy Chuck Stucker
Anne Miller Family Collection
Associated Press Archives
Author’s Historical Artifact and Photograph Collection
Bureau of Prisons Archives
California State Archives
Don Denevi Collection, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Parks Archives, Associated Press Photograph, GOGA Catalog index numbers provided in the print version.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Parks Archives
John Martini Collection
John Reinhardt
Julie Esslinger
Library of Congress Historical Photograph Collection
Lori Brosnan (National Park Service Photo - Taken by Ranger Lori Brosnan)
Michael Esslinger
National Archives and Records Administration
National Park Service / Golden Gate National Recreation Area Museum Collection
Patty Terry & William Radkay Family Collection
Phil Dollison Collection, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Parks Archives, GOGA Catalog Index number provided in the print version.
Ronnie Comeau, iStock Photography
San Francisco Chronicle / San Francisco Call Bulletin / Examiner Photo Archives
San Francisco Public Library, History Center Archives
United States Coast Guard Archives
Washington State Historical Society
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Esslinger is a historical researcher and best-selling author whose acclaimed work has appeared in numerous books, film and television documentaries, including segments on the Discovery, National Geographic and History Channels. His work spans entertainment, science, politics and historical subjects.
From the elusive crew of Apollo 11, to inmates of Alcatraz, he has interviewed icons and other figures that have shaped history and continues to write on subjects that explore a vast spectrum of the human experience.
His books ALCATRAZ – A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years and LETTERS FROM ALCATRAZ continue as best-selling references chronicling the island’s rich historical past. He is the co-author of the memoir: I WANT IT NOW! A Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a magical memoirwrittenwith Julie Dawn Cole, the original Veruca Salt in the classic motion picture with Gene Wilder.
Current projects include a comprehensive history on the Apollo Program, documenting mankind’s epic journey to the moon, and Al Capone - The King of Alcatraz, a historical account of Capone’s years on the Rock. Visit www.HistoryArchive.com for more information current and future works.
He resides on the California Coast with his wife and three sons.
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