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I visited also.......couldn't believe how small the prison yard really was compared to what it looked like in movies! It looked football stadium big in the movies but it was really the size of a tennis court!
I was there at night and it was raining so we couldn't see the prison yard. It was very atmospheric and spooky in the prison but I'm bummed I never saw the yard.
Thanks for the links, more escape attempts than I had ever heard of or imagined.I think the authorities don't want the public to notice their tarnished record. The story of John Paul Scott was the one I heard from the tour guide on my trip in the 6th grade. He was found under the south tower of the GGB suffering from hypothermia.
Again, possible, but unlikely in my mind.. I just can't see these three staying out of trouble after escaping.
The FBI doesn't want to know if they were successful, that is what I take a away from the video after watching it, otherwise they would do some TV announcement and give him a pardon like the letter requested and get the truth. I think they just may have made it!
Here's a quote from an FBI employee/Triathlete on the escape.
Harp spent 21 years with the FBI, but did not work directly on this case.
"As a law enforcement person I'd like to think that their escape attempt was not fruitful for them. Personally, as someone who swims in the bay, and we have a triathlon that goes on every year, and there's not a single person that doesn't make that swim," he added.
Again, possible, but unlikely in my mind.. I just can't see these three staying out of trouble after escaping.
That doesn't seem unlikely to me. The two brothers, at least, were small time non-violent criminals who had grown up as migrant workers. They might very well have decided that going back to working for a living was better than Alcatraz.
That doesn't seem unlikely to me. The two brothers, at least, were small time non-violent criminals who had grown up as migrant workers. They might very well have decided that going back to working for a living was better than Alcatraz.
If we're calling bank robbery non-violent.. I'll agree with you. I just won't agree with calling bank robbery, with or without a weapon, non-violent. Some explanation here.. They always claimed they didn't use guns, they brought toy guns to rob a bank.. The bank manager said he didn't know for sure, but he assumed they were real. I tend to agree with the bank manager.
The Anglins were not saints at all, but.. OK, I will give you that they didn't have enough crimes under their belts to be considered hardened criminals. Just.. Drugs, Bank robberies and escape attempts.
Morris, however.. Without question was a career criminal. It's all he knew. And making the argument that he could have stayed under the radar is highly suspect.
Just out of curiosity.. I'll see what I can look up on this.. What happened to Alfred Anglin?
Ah, he died in prison in '64.. Rumors that he was beaten for not giving up his brothers.. Buried in FL..
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