Alcatraz Escape Part 1 of 17" (PDF). FBI Records: The Vault. p.52 . Retrieved May 27, 2019. ...could obtain a suitable legitimate residence to be used as a hideout...MORRIS, Subject JOHN ANGLIN and another individual, whose face he did not see, but whom he presumed was Subject CLARENCE ANGLIN... . This history did however bring to the fore that there had been other escape attempts from Alcatraz which were at least as successful (two men sailing away in darkness on a self made craft and never seen again) or even more successful (man forging warden’s signature on release form and just waltzing off), which makes one wonder why this particular – probably failed – escape attempt was able to write itself into legend and receive (what’s supposed to be) it’s own book. Cedar Rapids Gazette Newspaper Archives | December 26, 1990, p. 10". crgazette.newspaperarchive.com.

If the three prisoners of Alcatraz escaped, they were uniquely talented at escaping from prisons. They were assigned to Alcatraz because of their penchant for escaping from other maximum prisons. Frank Morris was notorious for running multiple times. The Anglin brothers, JW and Clarence, were also prison escapees assigned to Alcatraz. The thought was that the prisoners would remain intact in Alcatraz (on an island surrounded by water). Alcatraz was famous because no one had escaped this famous prison. There had been many attempts but no successes. A more serious review for a book that was so incredibly well planned, well written and so enjoyable. For me, it wasn’t quite good enough for 5 stars as it took me a short while to get into it, but nonetheless I devoured the second half of the book, which is why it’s rated so highly for me. The FBI closed its file on December 31, 1979, after a 17-year investigation. [25] Their official finding was that the prisoners most likely drowned in the cold waters of the bay while attempting to reach Angel Island. They cited the remnants found of the raft, as well as the personal effects of the men, as evidence that the raft broke up and sank at some point and the three convicts succumbed to hypothermia, with their bodies swept out to sea by the rapid currents of the San Francisco Bay. [2] [7] [8] [24]From the service corridor, Morris and the Anglins climbed the ventilation shaft to the roof. Guards heard a loud crash as they broke out of the shaft, but nothing further was heard, and the source of the noise was not investigated. Hauling their gear with them, they descended 50 feet (15m) to the ground by sliding down a kitchen vent pipe, then climbed two 12-foot (3.7m) barbed-wire perimeter fences. At the northeast shoreline, near the power plant—a blind spot in the prison's network of searchlights and gun towers—they inflated their raft with a concertina stolen from another inmate and modified to serve as a bellows. At some time after 10:00 p.m., investigators estimated, they boarded the raft, launched it and departed toward their objective, Angel Island, two miles to the north. [23] [24] Investigation [ edit ] Family members of the Anglin brothers occasionally received postcards and messages over the years. Most were unsigned; one was signed "Jerry", and another "Jerry and Joe". [52] [53] The family also produced a Christmas card, purportedly received in the family mailbox in 1962, saying, "To Mother, from John. Merry Christmas." [54] Another of the Anglins' 11siblings, Robert, also said that sometimes the phone would ring and all that could be heard was breathing on the other end; Robert said, "I suppose all that could have been pranks, but maybe it was my brothers." [52] The mother of the Anglin brothers received flowers anonymously every Mother's Day until her death in 1973, and two very tall, unusual women in heavy makeup were reported to have attended her funeral. [52] Federal officials say that in the mid-to-late 1960s and into the 1970s there were "six or seven" sightings reported of the Anglin brothers, all in north Florida or Georgia. Robert said that in 1989, when the father of the Anglin brothers died, two strangers in beards showed up at the funeral home. According to Robert, "They stood in front of the casket looking at the body a few minutes ⁠— they ⁠⁠... wept ⁠— then, they walked out." [52] a b c "The Great Escape From Alcatraz". AlcatrazHistory.com. Ocean View Publishing Company. p.1 . Retrieved July 23, 2014. a b c "Frank Morris Escaped From Alcatraz and Was a D.C. Native". Ghosts of DC. September 10, 2012. Archived from the original on February 7, 2018 . Retrieved February 19, 2018.

a b Notorious Alcatraz escapees may still be on the lam (October 19, 2015). CBC.ca. Retrieved November 2, 2015. The guards, when interviewed, said that the three who escaped did so because they were menaces. They only wanted to cause trouble and endanger innocent people by stealing their way through life outside of jail. However, our view cannot be limited by the convictions of the guards that Babyak focuses on; there are more emotional factors that compelled their escape, showing the real humans that were protected by a criminal outer shell. The Anglin brothers both had girlfriends and a large family at home, who were poor and as the two boys had gone, they had nothing. Babyak touches on this in her brief biography of each prisoner mentioned, but she focuses more on their violent criminal past, rather than their emotional connections in the outside world.a b "Alcatraz inmates survived infamous 1962 escape, letter suggests". cbsnews.com. January 24, 2018 . Retrieved March 24, 2018.

a b Litwak, Mark (1986). Reel Power: The Struggle For Influence and Success in the New Hollywood. New York: William Morrow & Company. pp.131–132. ISBN 0-688-04889-7. Terror on Alcatraz (1987) stars Aldo Ray as Morris, returning decades later to the scene of his escape from Alcatraz and scouring his old prison cell for a map to a safe deposit box key. [ citation needed] Ebert, Roger (June 27, 1979). "Escape From Alcatraz". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved November 23, 2018. AlcatrazHistory.com Great Escape from Alcatraz. http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/alcesc2.htm AlcatrazHistory.com.Zimmerman, Keith; Zimmerman, Kent; Hyneman, Jamie; Savage, Adam; Rees, Peter (2005). Mythbusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4169-0929-3. In 1989, a woman who identified herself only as "Cathy" called Unsolved Mysteries tip line to report that a photo of Clarence Anglin matched the description of a man who lived on a farm near Marianna, Florida. Another woman also recognized a photo of Clarence Anglin, and said he lived near Marianna. She correctly identified his eye color, height, and other physical features. Another witness claimed that a sketch of Frank Morris bore a striking resemblance to a man she had seen in the same area. [55] Claims and developments [ edit ]