Not *that* Alcatraz Escape

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Description

Why should John Anglin, his brother Clarence, and Frank Morris get all the attention? Here are the stories of the other escape attempts from the Rock.

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Credits

Hosted and edited by Lars Hacking

Researched and written by Charlie Worroll

Music by Marc Walloch

Cover art by Lars Hacking

Sources

INTERNET

• https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alcatraz-escape

• https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp

• https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa157.pdf

• https://musebycl.io/digital-data/can-ai-solve-58-year-old-alcatraz-escape-mystery

• https://www.nytimes.com/1936/06/24/archives/capone-is-stabbed-by-alcatraz-felon-fellow-convict-plunges-scissors.html

• https://www.nytimes.com/1938/05/24/archives/three-convicts-fail-in-break-at-alcatraz-slug-guard-two-are-shot.html

• http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/581735

• https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/381/67/55912/

• https://www.sfgenealogy.org/sf/history/aindex.htm

• http://ggnpc.convio.net/site/#escape

NEWSPAPER

• Felon Slain In Alcatraz Escape Try, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 April 1936

• Desperate Felons Elude Guards to Make Escape Off Fog-Shrouded Rock, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 December 1937

• Alcatraz Felon Killed, One Shot, Third Seized As Guards Foil Escape, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 1938

• Wooly Night, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 January 1939 Alcatraz Break, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 April 1943

• Guards Seize New Fugitive From Alcatraz, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 August 1943

• Alcatraz Break, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 December 1962