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4 days ago · The Battle for Alcatraz. A desperate convict escape attempt, brutal murders and Officer Harold Stites. Chris Sams. May 23, 2024. Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the world and its history is understandably dark with harsh conditions, escape attempts and murders. The 2nd May 1946 was the beginning of a dark and bloody episode in the ...
5 days ago · Particularly haunted places include Cell 14D, where the most troublesome prisoners were kept in total confinement, while visitors report hearing moans and cries throughout the moldering cell...
3 days ago · Starting in 1825, Sing Sing’s inmates excavated marble from a nearby quarry to create a 487-foot long, 44-foot wide four-story building. The Cellblock had a capacity for 800 inmates and became ...
5 days ago · Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most ...
- Lloyd Farley
- Senior Writer
- Don Siegel
3 days ago · Before holding civilian prisoners, Alcatraz held prisoners of war. In 1867, a jailhouse was built on the fort. Thirty years later, during the Spanish-American War of 1898, the prison had a ...
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2 days ago · Rogers Commission Report. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC ). It was the first fatal accident involving ...
3 days ago · Among the many things Hart Island has been — a narcotics rehabilitation center, a quarantine zone for yellow fever, a prison, women’s insane asylum, a tuberculosis hospital, and of course, the ...
