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A 2011 documentary on the National Geographic Channel entitled Vanished from Alcatraz reported that contrary to the official FBI report, a raft was discovered on Angel Island on June 12, 1962, the day after the escape, with footprints leading away from it.
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.
- Natasha Frost
Aug 12, 2023 · Three convicts, after months of planning, hatched an escape that put them outside the walls of the prison. They made is as far as the bay of San Francisco. What happened after that is uncertain, but there exist theories and evidence to argue that their story didn’t end there. Hollywood made the story into a movie, starring Clint Eastwood.
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.
- Sarah Pruitt
Frank Morris arrived at Alcatraz in January 1960 after convictions for bank robbery, burglary, and other crimes and repeated attempts to escape various prisons.
Sep 1, 2024 · On June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay — and their fate remains uncertain.
Alcatraz was closed shortly after the true events on which the film was based. Screenwriter Richard Tuggle spent six months researching and writing a screenplay based on the 1963 non-fiction account by J. Campbell Bruce. [15]
