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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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    John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California...
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  • Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel. The screenplay, written by Richard Tuggle, is based on...
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    The Battle of Alcatraz, which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946, was the result of an escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary by armed convicts. Two...
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    Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe (category Escapes and escape attempts from Alcatraz)
    pictures of Roe. List of Alcatraz escape attempts List of fugitives from justice who disappeared Battle of Alcatraz June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt [1] – via ancestry...
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    James C. Lucas (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    criminal who served a life sentence in Alcatraz. He is best known for being part of an attempted escape from Alcatraz Penitentiary in 1938, and for attacking...
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  • Escape from Alcatraz refers to events surrounding real or fictional escape attempts from a former prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Escape...
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    Rufus Franklin (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    life sentence in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. He is best known for taking part in the third documented attempted escape from Alcatraz Prison with Thomas...
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    in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay, prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's most secure prison....
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    into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The strong currents around the island and cold water temperatures made escape nearly impossible, and...
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