The ship was scheduled to go out in a blaze of glory as a target ship during joint military exercises. The 80-year-old vessel, however, would not quite make its own funeral.
As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent priorities for Pope Francis' successor.
Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and George "Machine-Gun" Kelly.
