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William Baker, Age 23, Arrives At USP-Alcatraz in 1956 Bill Baker, first 'visited' Alcatraz Island sixty years ago, in 1957, at the tender age of just twenty-three. He would spend three and one-half long years doing 'hard-time' in America's first 'Super-Maximum Security' prison.
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In 1957, Bill Baker boarded a small wooden boat, his hands, and feet shackled behind his back where he was transported to the infamous Alcatraz prison after numerous escape attempts at other prisons. At the time, the frigid waters that surrounded Alcatraz was shark-infested and becoming famous in various Hollywood productions.
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For three years Alcatraz was home for William Baker. The ex-con returns every year to revisit his past. The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, now a national park, was open for nearly 30 years.
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Posted on January 2, 2018 [Guest Blogger Bill Baker] Hello, I'm William Baker, former inmate of Alcatraz. Now that I am back to the straight and narrow, I go back now and talk to visitors, answering questions about my prison years, signing autographs, taking pictures and interacting with visitors to the Island.
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William G Baker This is a list of notable inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary . An inmate register reveals that there were 1576 prisoners in total which were held at Alcatraz during its time as a Federal Penitentiary, between 1934 and 1963, although figures reported have varied and some have stated it to be 1557. List of notable prisoners
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Former prisoner Bill Baker, 80 years old, talks about his book in the prison yard on Alcatraz in San Francisco, California on Thursday, November 7, 2013. He remembers activities on the.
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One former inmate, William "Bill" Baker, 86, reckons he knows the answer. "They beat this place," he told news.com.au. Baker, who did a three-year stint in cell #1259 from 1957-60, is one of the last surviving inmates of America's most notorious prison.
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Rutter, Stone, Albright and Baker were among the dozens taking part in what would be the last official reunion for the Alcatraz Alumni Association. "The guards and the convicts are aging and.
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Former ALCATRAZ Prisoner Bill Baker, a.k.a. #129AZ' shares memories of his 'hard-time' at America's most feared Federal Penitentiary. This face-to face inter.
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Interview by Rob Crossan. Sunday December 15 2019, 12.01am, The Sunday Times. William Baker's Alcatraz mugshot. ALAMY. Baker, 86, was born into a poor Kentucky family and left home at the age of.
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Former inmate William G. Baker, whose book "Alcatraz #1259" is one of the top sellers on the island, shares tales from inside the cell.
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/ KALW News The Alcatraz Alumni pose for a family photo. Shortly after Alcatraz prison shut down in 1963, the people who lived and worked on the island began hosting annual get-togethers. When the National Park Service invited the "alumni" to host the reunions on the island, convicts were invited, too.
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As Alcatraz marks its 50th anniversary as a widely popular public tourist destination this year, SFGATE connected with both Babyak and Bill Baker, one of the last surviving former inmates, to.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Baker was no novice thief and no stranger to life behind bars when, in 1957 with shackles binding his hands and feet, he boarded a boat for Alcatraz. By then, the federal.
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Former Alcatraz prisoner Bill Baker is part of that living history. Fifty years ago today, some of San Francisco and Marin County's most famous tourist spots became a national park.