| Events | Docu-Links | ||
| Attorney General Homer Cummings sights Alcatraz prison as he returns from a visit to Alaska. He decides to investigate this site as a possible location for the super prison he envisions. | |||
| The Secretary of War grants use of Alcatraz to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for five years. | |||
| San Francisco citizens protest the choice of Alcatraz as the nation's maximum security prison. The Department of Justice calls upon them as patriotic Americans to support the penitentiary. | Response to San Franciscan Concerns | ||
| James A. Johnston, former warden of San Quentin, is appointed as Warden of Alcatraz. | |||
| * designates extensive inmate biographies additional bios in preparation | |||