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June 1962 Alcatraz escape
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On the night of June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States. Having spent six months preparing their breakout, the three men tucked papier-mâché model heads resembling their own likenesses into their beds, broke out of the main prison building via ventilation ducts and an unguarded utility corridor and departed the island aboard an improvised inflatable raft to an uncertain fate. A fourth inmate, Allen West, failed to escape with Morris and the Anglins and was left behind.
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From the article’s “Notable previous escape attempts” list
Prior to the June 1962 escape, two inmates, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe, escaped Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1937; they vanished into the bay and were unaccounted for, though officials presumed them drowned.
From the article’s “Notable previous escape attempts” list
Inmate Aaron Burgett drowned during an escape attempt in 1958.
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