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Jul 3, 2022

Alcatraz To Close Next Year

July 3, 1962 - Alcatraz, the Federal prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, will begin closing next year. James V. Bennett (pictured),...

Jul 2, 2022

Director Hoover Wants All Teachers and School Employees Fingerprinted

July 2, 1962 - J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I., advocates fingerprinting of teachers and other school employees to screen out...

Jul 2, 2022

Attorney General Kennedy Leans Toward Closing Alcatraz

July 2, 1962 - Time seems to be running out for Alcatraz Prison, the place where time stands still. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy...

Jun 25, 2022

Murdering Ex-Marine Undergoing Brain Tests in Jersey

June 25, 1962 - James H. Vance Jr., the 18-year-old former Marine who confessed to the killing of two teenage girls, began a series of...

Jun 24, 2022

Killer of Two Girls in Jersey Signs Confession

June 24, 1962 - Police said today that 18-year-old James H. Vance Jr. had signed a three-paragraph statement admitting he killed two...

Jun 23, 2022

Former Marine Charged with Murder of Two Girls in New Jersey

June 23, 1962 - An 18-year-old former member of the Marine Corps was charged today with the murder of two teenage girls whose bodies were...

Jun 22, 2022

Ex-Nazi Gets Life Imprisonment for Mass Murder

June 22, 1962 - A West Berlin court has sentenced Dr. Albert Filbert, 56 years old, a former colonel in the Nazi S.S., to life...

Jun 21, 2022

Two Girls Murdered in New Jersey

June 21, 1962 - The dead bodies of two teenaged girls who had been badly beaten were discovered this afternoon in a densely wooded area...

Jun 17, 2022

Officials Believe Escaped Alcatraz Convicts Drowned

June 17, 1962 - The finding of a plastic bag containing personal effects has strengthened the belief that three convicts who fled...

Jun 14, 2022

Chicago Hoodlums Strong-Arm Bar Girls Into Prostitution

June 14, 1962 - Young hoodlums who strong-arm bargirls and strip-teasers into prostitution have carved up Al Capone’s old Chicago rackets...

Jun 13, 2022

Alcatraz is Falling Apart

June 13, 1962 - Three convicts who dug escape hatches with spoons through cell walls on Alcatraz Island were aided by the erosion and...

Jun 12, 2022

Massive Search Underway for Escaped Alcatraz Convicts

June 12, 1962 - The search for three escaped Alcatraz convicts — Frank L. Morris (left) and brothers John (right) and Clarence Anglin...

Jun 12, 2022

Three Convicts Escape Alcatraz

🚨June 12, 1962 - Three Alcatraz convicts used spoons to dig and cut their way out of the island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay early...

Jun 7, 2022

Brooklyn Mobster Joseph Profaci Dead at 64

June 7, 1962 - Joseph Profaci (pictured in 1953), Brooklyn mobster and reputed leader of a powerful underworld syndicate, died of cancer...

Jun 7, 2022

Eugene O'Neill's Son Arrested on Narcotics Charge

June 7, 1962 - Shane R. O’Neill (pictured in 1959), the 43-year-old son of the late playwright Eugene O’Neill, was arrested early today...

May 31, 2022

May 31, 1962 - JFK Remarks on Juvenile Delinquency

May 31, 1962 - President Kennedy, in announcing today a program called Mobilization for Youth, discussed the problem of what is commonly...

May 27, 2022

Manhunt Underway for Iowa Man Who Killed Five

May 27, 1962 - A young man ambushed and killed his aunt and uncle in their Iowa farm-house last night, then drove four cousins home from...

May 25, 2022

Frankie Carbo Chooses Alcatraz: "It's Cleaner There"

May 25, 1962 - Frankie Carbo went to Alcatraz Penitentiary today at his own request. The 57-year-old underworld figure had been in Los...

May 23, 2022

Two Members of NYPD Charged with Excessive Use of Force

May 23, 1962 - The New York Civil Liberties Union today asked New York Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to institute disciplinary...

May 22, 2022

Gov. Rockefeller Backs Police

May 22, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller pledged last night his continuing support of measures needed by the police to combat...