'Rock Closes' Last Prisoners Leave Alcatraz
'Rock Closes' Last Prisoners Leave Alcatraz
It's "open house" at Alcatraz as the last of its 1500 prisoners are removed to other Federal penitentiaries. Reporters and cameramen are allowed to roam at will through the corridors and cell blocks of "The Rock" in San Francisco Bay that once confined the nation's most desperate criminals. Looking up at Alcatraz. CUS - Warning Keep Off: Only Government Boats Permitted Within 200 yards. (A warning painted on a huge electrical box). OHMS - The press milling around the halls and corridors of Alcatraz, if only walls can talk, what tales would they tell? MLS - The jail cells with the gates closed, one lonely guard in attendance a watchful eye over nothing. MS - Wearing hand-cuffs and leg irons the last 27 of it prison inmates leave the aging prison. MS - Prison transport buss transporting the prisoners. MS - Alcatraz prisoners walking down a stair case and queuing on to a prisoner passenger boat with many guards as they move across San Francisco Bay. Looking Up - A jail house guard waves to the camera man. MS - Jail house guard walking down the stairs holding a machine gun. MCUS - Jail house guard wearing a bullet proof vest and holding a riffle in his hands. MS - On the prisoner transport boat are the family members of the guards and Alcatraz administration waving adieu to the rock. POVS - Of Alcatraz from the deck of the boat.