Hundreds of leads were pursued by the FBI and local law enforcement officials in the ensuing years, but no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced favoring the success or failure of the attempt. A fourth conspirator, Allen West, failed in his escape attempt and remained on the island. Late on the night of June 11 or early morning of June 12, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris tucked papier-mâché heads resembling their own likenesses into their beds, broke out of the main prison building via an unused utility corridor, and departed the island aboard an improvised inflatable raft to an uncertain fate. The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz, with Angel Island (the fugitives' intended destination) in background, San Francisco Bay, March 1962Īlcatraz Island, San Francisco, California, U.S.
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