Robert Stroud - The Birdman Of Alcatraz
Robert Stroud was the Bird Man of Alcatraz Prison - you can learn all about him here. I love history and especially the history of Alcatraz. I love to takea tour of Alcatraz Prison. If you are visiting San Francisco for the first time I highly recommend the tour. (be sure to get your tickets early)
I have actually seen for myself where Robert Stroud lived for 17 years. It is very interesting to visit Alcatraz and learn more about this convicted killer.
The Birdman's Alcatraz Prison Cell
The Birdman Of Alcatraz
Robert Stroud was...
- convicted of killing two men
- saved from execution by his mother who wrote letters on his behalf
- never allowed to work with birds at Alcatraz - it was against the rules
- so vicious he lived in solitary confinement for six of his seventeen years there
- a man who worked with birds in three different cells at Leavenworth Prison
- an author who wrote Diseases of Canaries and Stroud's Digest on the Diseases of Birds
- smart enough to use his bird business as a means to smuggle alcohol in prison
- made famous by the movie "Birdman of Alcatraz" where he was
played by Burt Lancaster
Robert Stroud was an interesting man. A famous movie was made about him
where he played a kind grandfatherly type
and worked with birds in prison. Guards who knew him well considered
the Bird Man of Alcatraz an extremely
dangerous psychopath to be treated with caution. Robert
Franklin Stroud
was not a man you would want to meet wandering on a path alone at
Alcatraz - that's for sure!
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