San Francisco police and Coast Guard patrol boats circle Alcatraz Island in response to call from Warden James Johnston as rioting breaks out in the...
This is a close-up photograph of Dr. Louis G. Rouchet, surgeon of the U. S. Public Health service, as he attended to the facial wounds suffered by...
As Alcatraz prison's bloody state of siege continued unabated today, the Marine Corps joined in efforts to quell the uprising. Pictured in foreground...
Inside his electrically locked cell, Rufus 'Whitey' Franklin watched the Alcatraz battle. He had been kept in isolation at Alcatraz since his murder...
Photo diagram of the Battle of Alcatraz that took place at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary from 2nd-4th May 1946. Principal buildings and location of...
Photo shows the body of Alcatraz prison guard William Miller. He was murdered while concealing a key to a cell block door to prevent Alcatraz...
Photo shows the body of Alcatraz prison guard William Miller. He was murdered while concealing a key to a cell block door to prevent Alcatraz...
Photo shows the Warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, James A. Johnston , pointing into the cell in which seven prison guards were imprisoned by...
Warden James Johnston explains the "door that held." It was the key to this door that guard William Miller concealed, thus barring the way to the...
In cell block marked 1, convicts launched the first phase of their fight on Thursday during an escape attempt which became known as the Battle of...
Photo shows a prison guard pointing to spot in the gun gallery where one escape plot ringleader, Bernard Coy, squeezed his way through the bars after...
This aerial photo shows groups of convicts as they are herded in the compound of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. With the initial flare-up, which...
The Marines have not take an active part in the Alcatraz battle as a unit although their leader, World War II Veteran, Warrant Officer Charles...
Awaiting treatment at Marine hospital for relatively slight wounds suffered in the Alcatraz battle officer Fred Roberts talks with unidentified man...
