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In June 1962, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States.
Jun 4, 2024 · Alcatraz escape of June 1962, jailbreak from the supposedly escape-proof maximum-security federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, California, on the night of June 11, 1962. After six months of meticulous preparation, three inmates managed to break out, though it is uncertain if they reached the mainland.
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On June 12, 1962, the routine early morning bed check turned out to be anything but. Three convicts were not in their cells: John Anglin, his brother Clarence, and Frank Morris.
Oct 8, 2015 · On a June night in 1962, three inmates of the federal prison on Alcatraz Island escaped from their cells and (presumably) into San Francisco Bay, never to be seen again.
Jan 24, 2018 · After months of meticulous planning – on the night of June 11, 1962 – the trio of bank robbers squeezed through the vents in the back of their cells. The FBI says they used a homemade drill...
Jun 10, 2024 · On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. While their fate remains unknown, the ingenuity of their escape continues to captivate.
Jul 16, 2018 · In 1962, inmates and bank robbers Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin vanished from Alcatraz, the federal island penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco. They had used sharpened spoons...
Jun 25, 2024 · On 11 June 1962, the supposedly unbreakable fortress was exposed by a meticulously planned escape that still captivates imaginations today. James Osborne explains the ingenuity behind the escape plan, as well as the lingering mystery that surrounds the fate of the escapees...
On the night of June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates, Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin, set out in a raft made of raincoats into the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay.
On the morning of June 12, 1962, guards at Alcatraz—a federal penitentiary opened in 1933 on a desolate island in San Francisco Bay—discovered that prisoners John Anglin, Clarence Anglin,...
