Episode 448: Alcatraz Part I - Bird Is the Word
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Robert Stroud's Legacy
The real Robert Stroud was an obvious psychopath, pathologically self-centered, impulsive, very violent, remorseless and above all, highly manipulative. In 1961, the year before Birdman of Alcatraz was released, Stroud actually told a court deciding his fate that his principal interest in being released was to finally tick names off of a murder list he'd been keeping for years. From what I've read about traffic and what's going on out in the public, it's going to take a long time to do multiple errands a day. So you're saying Robert Stroud would have won the presidential medal of freedom. What a great legacy we have.
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