Did They Succeed?
Did They Succeed?
Alcatraz is the biggest and most atrocious prison that America has ever known. It housed the worst of the worst. It was built to punish rather than rehabilitate. Alcatraz both mentally and physically broke down people like Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly. Many have attempted to escape The Rock, but none has succeeded. Three people are believed to have escaped. Many believe that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers successfully escaped and survived.
Frank Morris, The Anglin brothers, and Alan West were planning the great escape. According to prison escape from Alcatraz They used sharpened kitchen utensils to carve out the metal grate in the back of their cells Then They covered their progress with fake cardboard grates. They then escaped through the vents to the roof, they slid …show more content…
down a pipe, then inflated their raft of raincoats, but one thing went wrong Alan West couldn't get out of his cell at the last moment so he stayed in and did his time. That was the last anyone has seen of them, besides Alan.
According to No way out Alan West later took credit for the plan, later, after he was done with his time he said that the plan was to raft to angel island swim to the mainland.
Formerly burglarize a clothing store, steal a car, then go their separate ways. That very night a blue chevy was stolen. the man said he was forced off the road by three strange men. Yet there have been no clothing store robberies reported in the area.
The Anglin’s mother received several idiosyncratic phone calls, postcards, and letters from an unknown human being. At her funeral, which was attended by the FBI, there were 2 unusually tall and masculine women. They left the funeral before They could be questioned. No one knew who they were, According to the FBI report.
According to a police report on the night of the escape, there was a boat that was illegally close to Alcatraz with all of its engines off. It stayed like that for a while, then It turned on abruptly and left through the golden gate bridge. According to prison escape from Alcatraz in Alan Wests bed, there was a page from an atlas, It was a map of Mexico. They also found that someone who knew the boys personally saw them in
Brazil.
On July 17, 1962, a Norwegian Freighter found a dead body floating in the water twenty miles from the golden gate bridge(Alcatraz history .com). They might have found a dead body and It could very well be Frank Morris, But it is definitely not The Anglin brothers. The Anglin family has finally cooperated with the officials and have told them that they were alive and could very well be alive today (New York Post).
In conclusion, The only ones who lived the escape were 3 out of the 36 that attempted, The Anglin brothers definitely have escaped… But maybe not Frank Morris.
Alcatraz is the biggest and most atrocious prison that America has ever known. It housed the worst of the worst. It was built to punish rather than rehabilitate. Alcatraz both mentally and physically broke down people like Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly. Many have attempted to escape The Rock, but none has succeeded. Three people are believed to have escaped. Many believe that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers successfully escaped and survived.
Frank Morris, The Anglin brothers, and Alan West were planning the great escape. According to prison escape from Alcatraz They used sharpened kitchen utensils to carve out the metal grate in the back of their cells Then They covered their progress with fake cardboard grates. They then escaped through the vents to the roof, they slid …show more content…
down a pipe, then inflated their raft of raincoats, but one thing went wrong Alan West couldn't get out of his cell at the last moment so he stayed in and did his time. That was the last anyone has seen of them, besides Alan.
According to No way out Alan West later took credit for the plan, later, after he was done with his time he said that the plan was to raft to angel island swim to the mainland.
Formerly burglarize a clothing store, steal a car, then go their separate ways. That very night a blue chevy was stolen. the man said he was forced off the road by three strange men. Yet there have been no clothing store robberies reported in the area.
The Anglin’s mother received several idiosyncratic phone calls, postcards, and letters from an unknown human being. At her funeral, which was attended by the FBI, there were 2 unusually tall and masculine women. They left the funeral before They could be questioned. No one knew who they were, According to the FBI report.
According to a police report on the night of the escape, there was a boat that was illegally close to Alcatraz with all of its engines off. It stayed like that for a while, then It turned on abruptly and left through the golden gate bridge. According to prison escape from Alcatraz in Alan Wests bed, there was a page from an atlas, It was a map of Mexico. They also found that someone who knew the boys personally saw them in
Brazil.
On July 17, 1962, a Norwegian Freighter found a dead body floating in the water twenty miles from the golden gate bridge(Alcatraz history .com). They might have found a dead body and It could very well be Frank Morris, But it is definitely not The Anglin brothers. The Anglin family has finally cooperated with the officials and have told them that they were alive and could very well be alive today (New York Post).
In conclusion, The only ones who lived the escape were 3 out of the 36 that attempted, The Anglin brothers definitely have escaped… But maybe not Frank Morris.