42333°W / 37.82667; -122.42333 In June 1962, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security...
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Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was the site of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary between 1934 and 1963. There were a total of 14 escape attempts from...
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which recounts the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film stars Clint Eastwood as escape ringleader Frank Morris...
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Escape from Alcatraz is a 1963 non-fiction book, written by San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Campbell Bruce, about the history of Alcatraz Penitentiary...
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Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe (category Escapes and escape attempts from Alcatraz)
the second documented escape attempt from Alcatraz, in 1937. Although officials were quick to conclude they died in the attempt, their remains were never...
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messages. Frank Morris and his fellow escapees escaped Alcatraz during the June 1962 escape from Alcatraz by entering a utility corridor behind B-Block...
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unsuccessful escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt, at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary Occupation of Alcatraz (November...
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failed escape attempt by six prisoners led to the Battle of Alcatraz. Perhaps the most famous is the intricate escape, carried out on June 11, 1962, by Frank...
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Escape from Alcatraz may also refer to: June 1962 Alcatraz escape, possibly the only successful escape attempt from the prison Escape from Alcatraz (triathlon)...
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– from which, officially, no prisoner ever successfully escaped. Most appearances of Alcatraz island in popular culture are related to its former status...
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Whitey Bulger (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
briefly transferred to maximum security at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California. During his time at Alcatraz, he kept in shape through weightlifting...
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John Paul Scott (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
but was hastened by the escape of John Paul Scott and others. After the closing of Alcatraz 3 months after his 1962 escape attempt, Scott was first transferred...
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Popular Mechanics (category Use mdy dates from June 2022)
introduced that same year. The march 1962 issue of popular mechanics magazine aided in the June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt, where three men, Frank Morris...
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Horror Express (1972), Lisa and the Devil (1974), and Escape to Athena (1979). For Birdman of Alcatraz, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting...
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Florida. In the Alcatraz escape on June 11, 1962, American criminals brothers John and Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary...
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two more escape plans. Tunstall mentions that on the journey to Warburg there was a flurry of train jumpers. June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt Maze Prison...
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Alvin Karpis (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
Karpis served the longest sentence of any prisoner at Alcatraz: 26 years. In April 1962, with Alcatraz in the process of being closed, he was transferred...
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happened in 1962, with 33 dead]. Clarín (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. September 14, 2011. "Escape Tried at Alcatraz". Milwaukee Journal. June 12, 1962. p. 1....
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September 1823 – March 6, 1903) was a U.S. Army Commanding Officer of Fort Alcatraz (1861–64). A native of Maryland, he served in the Army for eighteen years...
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1962 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1962. 1962 (MCMLXII)...
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Rufe Persful (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
film Escape from Alcatraz, Persful's hand mutilation was enacted in the movie. This scene is disputed due to the fact that the lead up to the June 1962 escape...
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1st Earl of Moray in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); the Warden in Escape from Alcatraz (1979); Dr. Paul Ruth in Scanners (1981); King Edward I in Braveheart...
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Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life (1962) DeBartolo, Anthony. Dillinger's Dupes: Town Seeks To Preserve A Jail Yet Escape A Dastardly Deed. Chicago Tribune...
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John Frankenheimer (section Birdman of Alcatraz (1962))
action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Train (1964), Seconds...
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have mutants loyal to him storm a Worthington Labs facility housed in Alcatraz to destroy a supposed "cure" for mutants. Logan, Storm, and Beast lead...
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James Stockdale (category Articles with unsourced statements from June 2015)
needed] Stockdale was one of eleven U.S. military prisoners known as the "Alcatraz Gang": George Thomas Coker, USN; George G. McKnight, USAF; Jeremiah Denton...
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San Francisco Marathon attracts more than 21,000 participants. The Escape from Alcatraz triathlon has, since 1980, attracted 2,000 top professional and amateur...
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Judgment at Nuremberg. Playing a bird expert prisoner in Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, he earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar...
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(1985), the action-war film Where Eagles Dare (1968), the prison film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film In...
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reportedly 150. 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. 1963...
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