Alcatraz Escape Research Paper
Brett Pinkston
Ms. Hill/2nd Hour
English 1
24 November, 2014
1962 Alcatraz Escape Research Paper
Have you ever heard about the escape from Alcatraz? On the night of June 11th, 1962 the most thought out and advanced prison escape took place.(Hopkinson). Prisoners Frank Morris, Allen West, and Brothers Clarence and John Anglin were getting ready to put the final parts of a daring escape plan into action.(Hopkinson). The challenge for the prisoners was not only getting out of the prison, but being able to row across the ocean on a makeshift boat made out of raincoats. The prisoners, for months, had chipped away at the concrete wall using tiny tools, Once the lights went out the prisoners climbed out the tiny holes and set up a secret workshop.(Hopkinson). Allen west wasn’t able to make it out of his cell so the three prisoners went on with the plane without him. Once they had reached the outside they then avoided the searchlight, and crawled quietly across the roof and scrambled down a drainpipe. They had made it out of Alcatraz. That’s just a brief summary of part of the escape at Alcatraz. No one knows if they had fully escaped and just went into hiding, nobody knows …show more content…
Alcatraz prison was presumed to be an inescapable prison or an escape proof prison. Although the prisoners are presumed dead there is a $1 million dollar bounty on the three prisoners whereabouts. The movie called Escape from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris JR has made the infamous Alcatraz escape one of the most famous escapes from a prison in US history. The US marshals service took over the manhunt for the three escaped survivors; the case was inherited by a US Marshal by the name of Micheal Dyke. The escapees were presumed dead but the US government wanted to make sure by putting a manhunt in place for Frank Morris, and the Anglin brothers. The manhunt still continues to this
Ms. Hill/2nd Hour
English 1
24 November, 2014
1962 Alcatraz Escape Research Paper
Have you ever heard about the escape from Alcatraz? On the night of June 11th, 1962 the most thought out and advanced prison escape took place.(Hopkinson). Prisoners Frank Morris, Allen West, and Brothers Clarence and John Anglin were getting ready to put the final parts of a daring escape plan into action.(Hopkinson). The challenge for the prisoners was not only getting out of the prison, but being able to row across the ocean on a makeshift boat made out of raincoats. The prisoners, for months, had chipped away at the concrete wall using tiny tools, Once the lights went out the prisoners climbed out the tiny holes and set up a secret workshop.(Hopkinson). Allen west wasn’t able to make it out of his cell so the three prisoners went on with the plane without him. Once they had reached the outside they then avoided the searchlight, and crawled quietly across the roof and scrambled down a drainpipe. They had made it out of Alcatraz. That’s just a brief summary of part of the escape at Alcatraz. No one knows if they had fully escaped and just went into hiding, nobody knows …show more content…
Alcatraz prison was presumed to be an inescapable prison or an escape proof prison. Although the prisoners are presumed dead there is a $1 million dollar bounty on the three prisoners whereabouts. The movie called Escape from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris JR has made the infamous Alcatraz escape one of the most famous escapes from a prison in US history. The US marshals service took over the manhunt for the three escaped survivors; the case was inherited by a US Marshal by the name of Micheal Dyke. The escapees were presumed dead but the US government wanted to make sure by putting a manhunt in place for Frank Morris, and the Anglin brothers. The manhunt still continues to this