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.