James Bulger's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1428 (National Archives catalog entry)
Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1428, with 580 digitized pages. The description gives receipt from Atlanta on 13 November 1959 and transfer to Leavenworth on 25 July 1962.
- Date
- 1959-11-13/1962-07-25
- Kind
- finding-aid
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 117695806
- Rights
- A catalog description of a Bureau of Prisons inmate case file (Record Group 129), a United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog marks the file unit use and access "Unrestricted"; the parent series (NAID 622809) is marked "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright (newspaper clippings) and privacy, so the contents of a file need a page-by-page check.
The catalog title is “BULGER, JAMES JOSEPH, Jr. “WHITEY” - Alcatraz Number 1428.” The file unit belongs to the series Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons at the National Archives at San Francisco. The catalog lists 580 digitized pages and also gives the size as “ca. 800 pp.” The pages have not been read for this archive.
The catalog description gives these fields: offense “ROBBERY OF FDIC BANK”; received at Alcatraz 11/13/1959 from US Penitentiary, Atlanta; transferred 07/25/1962 to US Penitentiary, Leavenworth. Those are the catalog’s entries, not readings of the file.
This entry is limited to the Alcatraz years the file unit covers. Later events appear in the catalog’s remark field and are outside this record; they are not taken from it here. The warden’s notebook page for the same register number is filed separately.
