{"id":5699,"date":"2017-04-26T19:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/sbfc\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2017-10-24T21:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:34:26","slug":"2017-banquet-speaker-jolene-babyak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/sbfc\/2017\/04\/26\/2017-banquet-speaker-jolene-babyak\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Banquet Speaker – Jolene Babyak"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jolene<\/span><\/div>
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Alcatraz: Growing up on the Dark Side<\/h3>\n

Jolene Babyak is one of the most knowledgeable, firsthand experts on Alcatraz history\u2014where she lived twice as a child.<\/p>\n

She is the author of four books, Eyewitness On Alcatraz; Birdman; Breaking The Rock; and Alcatraz Most Wanted under the pen name Cory Kincade, and is currently working on two new books. She has interviewed scores of prisoners, officers and family members, and examined hundreds of prison files, studying the childhoods and family lives of both prisoners and staff residents.<\/p>\n

Her father, Arthur M. Dollison worked on the island prison for nine years, eventually becoming the associate warden in 1961. Ms. Babyak\u2019s family lived there for about two years when she was seven to nine and later for a year when she was 15, when one of the most spectacular escape attempts took place.<\/p>\n

She has appeared in many nationally-televised videos, including \u201cThe Secrets of Alcatraz,\u201d \u201cBreak Out,\u201d and \u201cPublic Enemies\u201d on the Discovery Channel; \u201cThe Big House,\u201d \u201cThis Day in History,\u201d on the History channel, as well as documentaries on the Travel, Learning PBS and BBC networks. She has also appeared on CBS news, \u201cMyth- busters,\u201d \u201cCBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood,\u201d and has had media interviews in Japan, England, Australia, Canada with Peter Zoskin of the Canadian Broadcast Company, and in Germany on \u201cBrisant\u201d. Recently, she appeared at Ciudad de las Ideas, in Puebla, Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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