James "Whitey" Bulger was born on September 3, 1929. His life of crime began at the age of fourteen. At fourteen, he was arrested for theft. Larceny is just a different word for stealing. Bulger had also joined the “Shamrocks” street gang. Shortly after being arrested for theft, he was arrested for assault and armed robbery. The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center. In 1948, he was released and then joined the Air Force. Even in the army he managed to stir up trouble. He was sent to the military prison for repeated assault. He was also arrested in 1950 for being absent without leave. Believe it or not, he still received an honorable discharge four years after joining the service. After being discharged from the Air Force, he returned home to Massachusetts. Bulger's first serious stint in prison was when he had to spend time in the Atlanta Penitentiary. He was convicted of armed robbery and hijacking. Kevin Weeks, a gangster associated with Bulger, said Whitey was involved with Sidney Gottlieb and the MK-ULTRA project. Project MK-ULTRA was a government research experiment in "behavioral engineering of humans." Bulger and eighteen others had volunteered to get shorter sentences. The volunteer work they did involved taking LSD and other drugs to help find a cure for schizophrenia for eighteen months. After that, in 1959, Bulger was sent to the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. It was at Alcatraz that he became friends with Clarence Carnes. He was sent to the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary three years later and the following year he was sent to the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. He was finally released in 1965 after spending nine years in prison....... middle of paper ...... Selden, New York at Christmas and he spent New Years in New Orleans. He spent weeks between Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to avoid the police. Bulger was seen in London in 2002. This was the last time he was sent before he was finally arrested. On June 22, 2011, he was captured in Santa Monica, California. He ran Boston's underground crime sector for sixteen years and spent more than twelve years on the FBI's most wanted list and was featured sixteen times on the television show "America's Most Wanted." In my opinion, Whitey Bulger was obviously a villain, but he was very interesting. It was interesting to see how he kept a low profile and kept a low profile while he was being chased. He was so enamored that there was a $2,000,000 reward for information about him. The FBI had created a Bulger Fugitive Task Force that included FBI agents and U.S. Marshals. It's pretty crazy!