50 Years On
Fifty years ago three men set out into the frigid waters of the San
Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most
daring prison escapes in U.S. history from what was billed as the
nation's only 'escape-proof prison' - Alcatraz. Most people assume the
men have been at the bottom of the bay or were swept out to sea since
the night they broke free, tunneling out of their cells in part with
spoons from the kitchen and climbing the prisons' plumbing to the roof.
But the legend of their
escape
has held that the men, Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin, would
return on the 50th anniversary of their breakout. It's an unfounded
rumor that drew an unlikely group to the island last week to mark half a
century passed, including many of the Anglin brothers' family.
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