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9 unusual facts about United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth


Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel

Benny served time in Leavenworth Penitentiary from 1953 to 1957 for tax evasion.

Charles R. Forbes

On December 16, 1927, after the publication of his New York World article, Forbes testified before a grand jury in Kansas City that concerned his statement in the article that alleged narcotics was easily obtained at USP Leavenworth.

He served one year, eight months and six days at the Leavenworth federal penitentiary.

Jail Birds of Paradise

As Miss Deering and her secretary tour the prison there are a series of sight gags that involve various prisoners; among them, registering at Paradise's front desk, are Joe Pantz (Moe Howard), an axe murderer who has transferred from Leavenworth.

Norman Carlson

During his 30 year involvement, he served in the United States Penitentiary of Leavenworth, Kansas, and also in the Federal Correctional Institution of Ashland, Kentucky.

Prison Tycoon 2: Maximum Security

There are three real game locations in Prison Tycoon 2, Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary), Leavenworth, KS, and Steilacoom, WA (McNeil Island).

Thomas E. Gaddis

Birdman of Alcatraz was the story of Robert Stroud, the grandson of a Federal judge, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement after stabbing a guard to death in Leavenworth Federal prison in Kansas.

Three Smart Saps

The mobster party in prison is decorated with college-sports-style banners for Alcatraz, Joliet, Leavenworth and Sing Sing, all well-known prisons of the day.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials

Mission 6: United States Penitentiary, U.S.A. Leavenworth, Kansas, November 16, 2008, 20:10 (Double Agent, original level)


Alexander Caldwell

Caldwell died in Kansas City, Missouri in 1917, and is interred at Mount Muncie Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Alfred Shea Addis

As the potential for civil war heated up, the abolitionists increased their stronghold in Leavenworth and violence broke out there when Missouri seceded from the Union in November 1862, prompting Brigadier General James G. Blunt to proclaim martial law.

Cameron, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri was able to convince the railroad to bypass its rivals in St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas, Atchison, Kansas and Parkville, Missouri to create the "Cameron Branch" of the railroad.

Carl Panzram

He served time in prisons in Fresno, California; Rusk, Texas; The Dalles, Oregon; Harrison, Idaho; Butte City Montana; Montana State reform School, Miles City Montana; State Prison Montana {"Jeff Davis" #3194}; Oregon {"Jefferson Baldwin" #7390}; Bridgeport Connecticut {John O'Leary}; New York's Sing Sing {"Jeff Baldwin" #75182}; Clinton Correctional Facility New York {"John O'Leary"}; Washington D.C. (#33379); and Leavenworth, Kansas {Carl Panzram #31614}.

Clayton Fountain

He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and was ultimately sent to the United States Penitentiary, Marion--at the time, the highest-security prison in the nation.

Donn B. Murphy

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Murphy grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas, where his father, Arthur Morton Murphy, a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, was president of Saint Mary College (now the University of Saint Mary (Kansas).

Eduardo Miguel Perez

Perez was also involved in an incident after a match with Omar Atlas in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Henry Leavenworth

The artist George Catlin was also in this expedition, and wrote of Leavenworth's death.

Herbert R. Temple, Jr.

Fort Leavenworth's Mission Training Complex includes the Herbert R. Temple, Jr.

Highway 2 Bridge

The Highway 2 Bridge is an automobile and pedestrian crossing of the Kansas River on the border of Johnson and Leavenworth Counties in De Soto.

John C. Tibbetts

John C. Tibbetts (born Paola, Kansas, October 6, 1946 and grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas) is an American film critic, historian, author, painter and pianist.

John DeRoss

As of October 2011, DeRoss is serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Terre Haute, a maximum security unit in Terre Haute, Illinois.

John Hatley

:See John E. Hatley for the former US Army Master Sergeant serving a 40-year sentence in the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks for the murder of four Iraqi detainees.

Joppa, Texas

On May 19, 1904, the first telephone was installed in Joppa and in 1911, the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company out of Leavenworth, Kansas built an iron bridge across the river.

Leavenworth Times

In 1966 The Thomson Corporation bought the Leavenworth Times, selling it in 1995 to American Publishing Company (later Hollinger International).

Leavenworth, Indiana

His son Zebulon, named after the boy's uncle in Indiana, became a famous riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River and was a friend of Mark Twain before Twain became a writer.

In June 1863, a 25-year-old Confederate spy from Kentucky, Thomas Hines, was sent by General John Hunt Morgan to ride north into Indiana and reconnoiter with Southern sympathizers there, whose dedication to the Southern cause Morgan drastically overestimated.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

Mohammad Jamhour

In 1964, he graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth Kansas USA.

O'Bannon Woods State Park

O'Bannon Woods State Park is located near Leavenworth, Crawford County, Indiana, 32 miles (51 km) west of Louisville, KY.

Randy Sparks

Randy Sparks (b. 29 July 1933, Leavenworth, Kansas) is a musician, singer-songwriter and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority.

Sambo Dasuki

institutions in Nigeria and overseas including: Nigeria Defence Academy; US Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; U.S Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Samuel Adams Drake

He went to Kansas in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of the St. Louis Republican and the Louisville Journal, and for a while edited the Leavenworth Times.

United States Penitentiary, Florence High

A subsequent investigation found that the riot began when a group of inmates belonging to the Aryan Brotherhood celebrated the birthday of Adolf Hitler, which sparked a dispute with black inmates.

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth

The prison was extensively described by Pete Earley, the only writer at that time who had ever been granted unlimited access to the prison, in his book, The Hot House.

United States Penitentiary, Lee

He remains a fugitive and has been profiled on the television program America's Most Wanted.

United States Penitentiary, McCreary

On October 15, 2013, WBIR-TV, an NBC affiliate serving southeastern Kentucky, aired a story on how about 350 federal employees, primarily correctional officers, were working without pay during the 2013 federal government shutdown.

Warren T. McCray

After serving three years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, he was paroled and returned home in 1927.

William Boeing

Through her father, Bertha was a descendant of merchant bankers Alexander Brown of Baltimore, James Brown and Brown's son-in-law and partner Howard Potter of New York; and through her mother, the granddaughter of Charles James Kershaw and Mary Leavenworth Kershaw (a descendant of Henry Leavenworth).


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