Alcatraz booking photo of Basil Hugh Banghart: head and shoulders, facing the camera, with a placard reading "U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz 595". — Open the full imageJPG, 1108 × 1400 px, 0.3 MB

Basil Banghart, Alcatraz booking photograph (FBI)

Alcatraz booking photograph of Basil Hugh Banghart, published by the FBI, which describes him as a member of the Roger Touhy gang. A copy is stored here.

Date: undated
Kind: photograph
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A Bureau of Prisons (Alcatraz) booking photograph per the FBI caption, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A work of the United States government, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The FBI serves the image at the cited URL; a copy downloaded from it on 12 October 2026 is stored here.

The FBI image repository titles this entry “Basil Banghart” and captions it: “Alcatraz booking photo of Basil Hugh Banghart, member of the Roger Touhy gang. Banghart, Touhy, and Ed Darlak were all captured by the FBI in Chicago on December 29, 1942.” The repository lists the file at 415 KB.

The FBI gives no date for the photograph. Banghart’s Alcatraz warden’s notebook page at the National Archives records his receipt at Alcatraz on 1-7-43. This page does not claim the two images are the same exposure.

The copy shown here was downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026 (the repository’s 1108 by 1400 pixel rendition; the full-size download returned HTTP 503).

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Basil Hugh Banghart, No. 595Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Basil Hugh Banghart, received at Alcatraz from Joliet, Illinois, on 7 January 1943. A copy is stored here.

itemRoger Touhy, Edward Darlak, and Basil Banghart (FBI)FBI image of Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak and Basil Banghart, captioned with their capture on December 29, 1942. A copy is stored here.itemRoger Touhy mug shot and criminal record (FBI)Mug shot of Roger Touhy with part of his criminal record, published by the FBI on its Touhy history page. The FBI serves the image; no copy is stored here.