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00:00Alcatraz, Hollywood, they're kind of linked. There's been lots of films about Alcatraz, but what is the history of Alcatraz and why does President Trump want to reopen it?
00:11So I am an Alcatraz buff. I visited the prison about 40 years ago. And it's wonderful because you can put on an old style Walkman. I'm not sure if you remember the Walkmans.
00:26Yeah, even I do. Come on. And you can walk around the prison. And as you're walking around the prison, they'll have actual prison, former prisoners and former guards narrating what would have happened during the course of a day in the life of a prison or in the life of a prisoner.
00:42They would show you the cell where the Clint Eastwood character from Escape from Alcatraz stayed, and they still had the stuffed fake head that he used to fool the guards.
00:56It is, for someone such as myself, I became interested in all things sort of 1920s gangster-ish.
01:04And, of course, this is where they ended up. Al Capone ended up here.
01:08Machine Gun Kelly.
01:09Machine Gun Kelly, Birdman of Alcatraz.
01:12One of my favorites is a gentleman by the name of Alvin Creepy Karpis, who was Canadian, who actually spent more time as a prisoner in Alcatraz than anyone else. 26 years.
01:23Mm-hmm.
01:26Thank you very much.