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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcatraz, "The Rock," was in revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Revolt on the Rock | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Rock's siren wailed across the Bay. Outside the cell block, James J. Johnston, 71-year-old warden, known to the inmates as "Saltwater" Johnston, radioed for help to San Francisco police and the Coast Guard. Johnston's remaining guards herded 150 prisoners out of prison shops and into the yard. Other prisoners crouched in their cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Revolt on the Rock | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...York is a colonial city, a camping ground. All the hostility, all the cruelty of the world are present in this most prodigious monument man has ever raised to himself . . . this immense, malevolent space . . . this desert of rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Rock Desert | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Barbarians. "His attitude was superiority.... It is incredible how naive and stupid he often was, though he never knew it; men judging whole populations by the few harlots, drunks and black marketeers they met; men from tenant farmer cabins in the South scoffing at the rock houses of European peasants . . . illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles deriding the mellow folkways of ancient European communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Odious & Disgusting | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...weeks before Corregidor fell, 25 Aggies (led by Major General George Moore, '08) met on the Rock and answered "here" for their dead classmates. Three years later, on 1945-8 Muster Day, the survivors gathered on Corregidor with Japanese snipers still about; of the original 25, ten were dead, three missing. The living spoke up for their absent comrades, reported all present. Other musters were held in Africa and Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here! | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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