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Alcatraz Prison Riot

Alcatraz Prison Riot

Broadcast: May 11, 1946
Added: Aug 21 2016

Just one week before this broadcast, the law abiding citizens of America who were slowly recovering from four long years of war, were shocked to hear of a new battle on a twelve acre island in San Francisco Bay - the Battle of Alcatraz. For nearly one hundred years prior, the island of the pelicans had been a prison, and for the last thirteen years it had been a place of confinement for the most desperate and hopelessly encourageable criminals. For most, Alcatraz is the last stop before hell, but last week there was trouble on 'The Rock'...