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Top Ten fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger: head-and-shoulders color photograph of a man in glasses.
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James "Whitey" Bulger (FBI)

FBI image of James "Whitey" Bulger from the FBI's Boston field-office history, captioned with his arrest on June 22, 2011 in Santa Monica, California. A copy is stored here.

Date
undated
Kind
photograph
Source
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A work of the United States government, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the image page shows no third-party credit. 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 “James “Whitey” Bulger.” Its caption, shortened here, reads: “Top Ten fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger was arrested … on June 22, 2011 in Santa Monica, California, by agents on our Violent Crimes Task Force.” The full caption also names a companion who is a living private person; this page does not repeat that name. The repository lists the file at 99 KB.

The FBI does not give a date for the photograph. Bulger’s 1959 Alcatraz warden’s notebook page is filed separately.

The copy shown here is the original file, downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026.

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for James J. Bulger, Jr., No. 1428Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of James J. Bulger, Jr., received at Alcatraz from Atlanta on 13 November 1959 under a 20-year sentence for robbery of an FDIC bank. A copy is stored here.