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Alcatraz
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The Alcatraz Night Tour is a unique program limited to just a few hundred visitors per evening. It includes special programs, tours, and activities not offered during the day. Roundtrip ferry transportation, a live boat narration, a guided tour from Dock to Cellhouse, the Cellhouse Audio Tour, a keepsake souvenir brochure, recreation use fee, and a variety of special programs and presentations offered only at night. Click here for more information
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From the mid 1930's until the mid 1960's, Alcatraz used to be the home of many inmates, and the final stop for the most dangerous criminals. Their resumes boast crimes ranging from kidnapping to espionage, bank robbery to murder. The most famous inmates in the Island of Alcatraz were:
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The Alcatraz Night Tour operates year-round, Thursday-Monday evenings. Tickets are $31.50 for adults, $30.50 for juniors (ages 12-17), $29.25 for ages 62+, and $18.75 for children ages 5-11. Children under age 5 are free. For general Alcatraz at Night information, please call (415) 561-4926.
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Alcatraz was different. Despite its chaos and factionalism, the event resulted in major benefits for American Indians. Years later, Brad Patterson, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, cited at least ten major policy and law shifts. They include passage of the Indian Self Determination and Education Act, revision of the Johnson O'Malley Act to better educate Indians, passage of the Indian Financing Act, passage of the Indian Health Act and the creation of an Assistant Interior Secretary post for Indian Affairs. Mount Adams was returned to the Yakama Nation in Washington state, and 48,000 acres of the Sacred Blue Lake lands were returned to Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. During the occupation Nixon quietly signed papers rescinding Termination, a policy designed to end federal recognition of tribes.
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After several years of laborious construction and several armament expansions, Alcatraz was converted to a military fortress. It featured long-range iron cannons and four massive 36,000-pound, 15 inch Rodman guns capable of sinking mammoth hostile ships three miles away. Alcatraz's guns could fire 6,949 pounds of iron shot in one barrage. Though the fortress fired only one 400-pound canon round at an unidentified ship and missed, it served its purpose as a mighty deterrent to foreign invaders.
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In 1972, Congress created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Alcatraz Island was included as part of the new National Park Service unit. The island opened to the public in the fall of 1973 and has become one of the most popular Park Service sites - more than one million visitors from around the world visit the island each year.
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