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- Al Goes to Alcatraz
- Al Capone, Avid Reader
- Al Capone, Music Man
- The End of The Line
Alcatraz, located on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay and nicknamed The Rock, opened for business in August 1934, shortly before Capone arrived. It was a federal maximum-security prison, considered all but escape-proof. Capone, who had been serving his sentence in Atlanta, was transferred there along with more than 100 other prisoners from acros...
Capone’s education had stopped when he was expelled in the seventh grade. (A teacher hit him, so he slugged her back, according to Laurence Bergreen’s 1994 biography, Capone: The Man and the Era.) But prison gave him an opportunity to catch up on his reading. Biographer Eig reports that Capone’s selections from the prison library suggest a man with...
Not long after his arrival at Alcatraz, Capone got the idea of starting a musical band with other inmates. He lobbied for a year before the warden relented and allowed Capone to form an ensemble, which was permitted to practice no more than 20 minutes a day. Capone chose the banjo, Bergreen writes: “He had not previously played this or any other in...
Meanwhile, Capone was also suffering from syphilis, which had gone untreated for years. By the time he arrived at Alcatraz, the disease was beyond any cure, and he had begun a descent into intermittent madness. Prison doctors tried an experimental treatment that involved injecting Capone with the malaria virus, to raise his temperature and theoreti...
- Greg Daugherty
Aug 11, 2020 · During this time, Alcatraz held some of America’s most infamous criminals, including the gangsters Al Capone, Robert Stroud and George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly. Surrounded by treacherous waters, outfitted with the latest security technology, and strictly managed, Alcatraz was deemed ‘escape-proof’.
- Amy Irvine
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. [2] Late on the night of June 11 or early morning of June 12, the three men tucked papier-mâché heads resembling their own ...
- June 11–12, 1962
- Approximately 10:30 PM (UTC-7)
Aug 8, 2012 · In all, 36 men made a total of 14 escape attempts during Alcatraz’s history. Of these, 23 were caught, six were shot and killed during their escape and two drowned. The remaining five (including ...
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The Escapees. Frank Morris arrived at Alcatraz in January 1960 after convictions for bank robbery, burglary, and other crimes and repeated attempts to escape various prisons. Later that year, a ...
Everybody was rooting for Morris and the Anglins, and they still are! Unlike many in Alcatraz, Morris and the Anglins weren't violent offenders. They were low-end bank robbers sent to the rock ...
