Robert Stroud (* 28 January 1890 in Seattle, Washington; "† 21 November, 1963 in Springfield, Missouri) was an US-American force criminal, who developed during its more than fifty-year old detention to a recognized ornithologist. By the feature the prisoner of Alcatraz (Birdman OF Alcatraz) he attained world-wide admittingness.

Career/development

Childhood and youth

Robert Strouds childhood was coined/shaped by a violent father and a nut/mother. With thirteen years left it the parents' house and pierced myself with casual labours. In Juneau, Alaska he lived together with the twice as old dancer and prostitute Kitty O'Brian. In the controversy over Kitty it killed its contractor. On 23 August 1909 it became thereupon to twelve years prison condemns, which it had to begin in the notorious McNeil Iceland penal establishment, which was on a Seattle pre-aged island.

In Leavenworth

The and violent Stroud was shifted 1912 into the modern high safety prison Leavenworth (Kansas), after it had stabbed a fellow prisoner. Here it had entrance to an extensive library and had the possibility of participating in remote training courses. Despite its small education it created all examinations with outstanding results. In these years for the first time a painful kidney illness arose, which should accompany it its whole life.

To 26. March 1926 firstoh it an attendant, who had in particular chicaned it. He was condemned to death, but begnadigt after self-sacrificing fight of his nut/mother by president Woodrow Wilson to life imprisonment. Stroud was shifted by all fellow prisoners seperately into a single cell. First it was occupied with painting. A daily found he with his yard course a nest with three young Spatzen, which the storm had blown. It was the beginning of a career unparalleled in the American execution of sentences. With only a lifelong arrested one possible patience and observation gift he dedicated himself to the care and raising of After first articles in technical periodicals appeared, one became attentive in ornithologist circles to it. Stroud wrote several ornithologische books, which its Bekanntheitsgrad increased of far.

The guard staff had at first its hobby still in a well-meaning manner promoted - it helped to restrain an aggressive force author - the intensive external world contacts of the prominent prisoner was increasingly regarded. All attempts, whose privileges thought to cut, met Stroud out with counter measures, which reached from letter campaigns of its bird friends up to a fictitious marriage. Finally the was pushed away in December 1942 after 30 years Leavenworth after Alcatraz.

In Alcatraz and Springfield

In the most notorious penal establishment of the USA busy itself Robert Stroud mainly with the study of legal specialized books. There were not possibilities for the bird breed. Became nevertheless from the "Birdman" (closely: "Bird man") the "Birdman of Alcatraz". In the feature of the same name its history was brought 1962 on the canvas (Burt Lancasters representation older gentlemen had however only few with the reality to do).

Because of its attacked state of health (and around it against fellow prisoners to protect, still the some calculations openly had and it co-operation with the guard staff accused) it lived permanently in the dispensary. 1959 it was shifted Missouri due to its bad state of health into the prison Springfield, where it died on 21 November 1963. Robert Stroud, the Birdman OF Alcatraz, had spent 54 years without interruption in prisons.

Literature

• Robert Stroud - "Diseases OF Canaries" (TFH Pubns, US, 1966 - ISBN 0876664362)
• Thomas's E. Gaddis - "Birdman OF Alcatraz" (Comstock edition, Inc. San Francisco) - Biografie
• Leon "Whitey" Thomson - "skirt hard" (Simon & shoemaker, New York) - it is described the life on Alcatraz from view of a fellow prisoner

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