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Out of Alcatraz -- By a Spoon: June 11, 1962:
The motion picture "Escape from Alcatraz" told the story of the real 1962 escape attempt by Frank Morris and two brothers, John and Clarence Anglin. The three inmates manufactured crude tools, life-like dummy heads, false air vent grates, and life jackets from work and hobby materials.
On June 11, 1962, they left the dummy heads in their bunks to conceal their escape, crawled into the utility corridor through air vents in the backs of their cells, climbed to the top of the cellblock, out onto the roof through a ventilator, then down to the water's edge.
They left Alcatraz wearing homemade inflatable life jackets. There is no evidence that any of them survived the swift currents and frigid waters. |