On March 21, 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Last Prisoners Leave Alcatraz
It's "open house" at Alcatraz prison as the last of its 1,500 prisoners are removed to other Federal penitentiaries. Camera men are allowed to roam at will through the corridors and cell blocks of "The Rock" in San Francisco Bay that once confined the nation's most desperate criminals.
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