Alcatraz Island by Milton Daniel Beacher

He painted, practiced psychiatry, and created fantastic things until his death in 1993. In addition to being a gifted physician, Beacher was a talented artist, woodworker, and inventor. Some years later, he became certified in dermatology and psychiatry. Beacher later returned to Brooklyn and established a family medical practice. He served as a medical officer for one year. Public Health Service sent the 25 year-old doctor to Alcatraz Island. Soon after graduating from George Washington University, the U.S. Milton Daniel Beacher was born in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York in 1912. Befriended by some prisoners, he included their first-person narratives and original prisoner poetry. Beacher later wove the journal into a vivid account of life on the Rock. He also penned conversations with famous prisoners like Al Capone, Alvin Karpis, and 'Machine Gun' Kelly. It chronicled the suicides, discipline problems, force feedings, and details of a long strike and successful escape.

arrived on Alcatraz Island a naïve and compassionate young doctor. 30 years later he signed over his manuscript to his daughter, Dianne Beacher Perfit, who eventually groomed it & set up her own publishing company to get her father's remarkable & unique memoir out before the public. Beacher tried to get his memoir of that year on The Rock published in the 1950s but found no one interested. Later he became a dermatologist & psychiatrist.ĭr. After a year, he returned to Brooklyn & established a family practice. Public Health Service, he was sent to Alcatraz Island as a medical officer. Milton Daniel Beacher was born in 1912 & graduated from George Washington University in 1936. Book: Alcatraz Island: Memoirs of a Rock Doc, 2001. Living with them in 1920 are these children all born in New York: son Abe, 12 Milton, 6 years and 8 months and Bernie, son, 4. Ruser was born in Philadelphia and her parents in Russia. Joseph was born in Russia and his year of immigration was 1882. 3 Joseph Beacher, age 39, plumber, is married to his wife, whose name is difficult to read since the census taker crossed out one name and overwrote another. Census in 1920 in Brighton Beach, Kings, NY.

Died:, Miami, Miami-Dade, FL, United States at age 81 1 2ġ.

Alcatraz Island by Milton Daniel Beacher