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Birdman of Alcatraz. 1962. Director John Frankenheimer and Burt Lancaster as the prison inmate who spends his long stretch learning ornithology produce an above-average prison drama. However, if you really want to know about prisons, read "Soledad Brother...
...suspicion and distrust remain, but the dignity is fast fading-on both sides. The seizure of Alcatraz three years ago by a number of young militants was an early sign that the more restless, more urban Indians of the 1970s would not share the reticence of their reservation-bred elders. The ransacking of the Bureau of Indian Affairs by 600-odd Indian militants who gathered in Washington to demonstrate for needed changes in federal policy is another indication that the old era of pride has given way to a new-and surprisingly delayed-period of violent protest. Offices were torn...
...went on a robbery spree which netted me an aggregate of 61 years in prison sentences." Twice he escaped-from prisons in Atlanta and Oklahoma City; twice he was recaptured. Finally he was sent to the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill.., a maximum-security prison known as "the new Alcatraz...
...student nurses in a Chicago dormitory in 1966, is just as methodically raising birds. Still confined to death row despite the Supreme Court's edict against capital punishment, Speck has been nicknamed "the Birdman" by his fellow prisoners-a reference to the 1962 Burt Lancaster movie, Birdman of Alcatraz. "I haven't raised any fuss about the birds," said Stateville Assistant Warden George Stampar. "Two sparrows flew into his cell and he's attached to them. I understand he even shampoos them...
Still, it remains to be seen if the moral appeal implicit in this book will evoke a response from "the land of the thief and the home of the slave," as DuBois called it; partly because, as an Indian woman who had been on Alcatraz told me recently, "People are brought up with the idea that all these things the white people have done to the Indians was done a long time ago. A lot of people don't realize that it's still going...