John Anglin

Alcatraz, an island off the coast of San Francisco Bay, three criminals planned a master plot. Frank Lee Morris, the mastermind behind all of it, started planning. Morris was a foster child and was a troublemaker. He was convicted of his first crime at the age of only thirteen. When he got into his later teens he was convicted of many more crimes from narcotics possession to armed robbery. He had become a professional inhabitant of the correctional system by that point. The other two escapees, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin, who were brothers, were arrested for bank robbery and were later moved to Alcatraz because of their many escape attempts. The huge escape started to take place in December of 1991. They started off just by collecting old saw blades. From a NetworkWorld article it states, “A fourth inmate, Allen West, was involved in planning the escape, but he never made it out of his prison cell. The known details of the escape were provided by West during several interviews.” The Anglin brothers had adjacent cells while West’s and Morris’s cells were nearby also. The inmates had a shift system, one of them would dig and scrape, little by little while another was on the lookout. They would do this from 5:30 PM to about 9:00 PM. By May of 1962, the inmates had already dug through a six by nine inch vent in the cell. They then began to work on the vent at the top of the cell block. While two would dig, the other two started making dummy heads and even gave them names of…

jackets. At Alcatraz, they made sure the water was hot for their showers. This was so they wouldn’t get immune to the cold water. The prisoners weren’t in shape either, except the few pushups or sit ups they did in their cells, so it would be hard to make that swim if the rafts failed. (Hopkinson, Deborah. “Escape from Alcatraz.” Scholastic scope. 20 February 2012 6 - 9 pages) They found personal items in the bay the day after the escape. There were homemade life jackets found flowing in the…

Alcatraz Alcatraz was the most remote prison in the world. The worst criminals that no other prison could hold were sent to Alcatraz. It is supposed to be nearly impossible to escape.There are only three prisoners in the world that have proven that theory wrong. The problem with these three is that no one has complete proof that they survived or if they drowned on their way. Evidence has shown that Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin survived their escape (Hopkinson 6). This paper is…

There are different theories discussing whether or not the escapees had survived such a historic event. This is because of the weather the night of the escape, the water of San Francisco Bay, and the overall construction of the raft that they took to escape from the Alcatraz. On June 11th, 1962 Frank Lee Morris, John William Anglin, and Clarence Anglin finally put plans in action for the greatest escape in history. There was a fourth person in the grand scheme, but later backed out and did not…

On the day of June 11,1962, three inmates at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to action their escape. Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin used tactics such as dummies , the removal of ventilator covers, and the construction of tools to help plan their escape. However, to this day it remains a mystery as to what happened to the three and if they carried out their escape successfully. Frank Lee Morris, who led the escape attempt out of Alcatraz, has been planning out their escape…

the felons that had been through the prison and attempted to escape, very few had ever managed to actually get off of the island. Frank Morris along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin were three of the few men to initiate the escape of the prison. In June 1962, the three…

Three inmates of the Alcatraz Prison escaped on June 11, 1962, and were said to have died in the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay. Although there is evidence supporting that conclusion there is still no for sure explanation if they actually died or not. I think that they survived the escape because of their clever planning. They could of died but there is still no proof that they did. There is evidence that could help prove that they did survive. So did Frank Morris, along with John and…

and running water. There were 336 cells which never got filled. There was also a hospital to help prisoners and if the injury or illness was serious enough, prisoners would be sent to the mainland to be healed. (Stollznow) With these types of conditions, and being able to earn more privileges to make your prison life more interesting, I'm not sure that it would be worth risking your life to escape. Yes, I understand that these prisoners had a life outside of prison that they wanted to get…

locations. As one of the world's most infamous and best known prisons over the years, Alcatraz (also known as The Rock) harbored around 1,576 of America's most cold-blooded criminals including Al Capone, Robert Franklin “Birdman” Stroud, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Bumpy Johnson, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Mickey Cohen, Arthur R. "Doc" Barker, James "Whitey" Bulger, and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis. (Dymi A1) It gave shelter to the Bureau of Prisons staff and their families. A total of thirty-six prisoners…

Morris and the Anglin brothers started preparing for their escape months prior to their escape in June 1962. The intelligent men began their strategy with saw blades and sharpening spoons from the prison cafeteria to widen the air vents in their cells until the openings were large enough for them to shimmy through. The inescapable prison was starting to deteriorate and the three inmates used the crumbling walls of the building to their advantage. They covered their digging by crafting a…