In 1962: Three inmates broke out of America's most feared prison — and disappeared
On the night of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary using improvised tools, a raft made from raincoat linings, and papier-mâché dummy heads — vanishing into San Francisco Bay and never being definitively found.
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