Escape From Alcatraz

There were a total of 36 escape attempts during Alcatraz's 29 years of being open as a prison. James Lucas and Rufus Franklin were the first to have a violent escape attempt as they killed a guard with a hammer. They both were caught and given life sentences for killing a guard in their escape attempt. There was many more escapes but the one before the most

The group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) occupied Alcatraz for nineteen months, from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, and was forcibly ended by the U.S. government . According to the IAT, the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux should have returned all retired, abandoned or out-of-use federal land to the Native people from whom it was acquired. Since Alcatraz penitentiary had been closed on March 21, 1963, and the island had been declared surplus federal property in 1964, a number of activists felt the island qualified for reclamation. In 1970, the Occupation of Alcatraz was noted as "the symbol of a newly awakened desire among Indians for unity and authority in a white world."

Riots began and guards were killed by the prisoners. These were only some of the many things that made people question Alcatraz’s safety.

Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, California, is the home of the first lighthouse, the first United States fort in the Pacific Ocean, and above all home to the infamous Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Alcatraz prison housed some of the most dangerous criminals in American history. Such inmates include Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly and Robert Stroud. Since it’s closing in 1963, Alcatraz has attracted much attention as people wondered about the mysteries that lie on the island. Today, the public can take an interactive tour and get a hands-on experience of what life was like on “the rock.”

At the dawn of November 20, 1969, 89 Native Americans boarded a bus in Sausalito, California and made a five-mile trip across foggy San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island. Upon landing, they declared the former prison Indian land by "right of discovery." They later demanded that the U.S. government should provide funding to turn it into a Native American cultural center and university. During the mid-1960s, American Indians had vicariously been on a mission to break into the famed prison, Alcatraz. After the prison closed its doors in 1963, Bay Area Native Americans began to lobby for the island to be redeveloped as an Indian cultural center and school. Five Sioux even landed on Alcatraz in March 1964 and tried to seize it under a 1868 treaty

Alcatraz was built as a maximum security prison, it was capable of escape but prisoners never made it off the island alive. This prison on the water was built to hold the most dangerous criminals, because it was the hardest prison to escape from. Today you can visit and or tour Alcatraz it is now a national park for people to witness some of the stuff prisoners had to go through being there. Alcatraz has a lot of things people don’t know about it like what was the purpose, how many deaths/escapes and the history behind it.

On June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and the anglin brothers attempted a prison escape in San Francisco, California. Many people believe that they either survived or that they died trying to get away. Despite that a picture was released, that was supposedly the anglin brothers, that a family member took of them in Spain. Frank morris and The Anglin brothers died trying because they were never seen or heard from again, the water was shark infested, if they did start to swim they would have gotten hypothermia, the current of the water would have swept them underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the ocean.

Imagine it’s a cold foggy night your shivering form head to toe outside of that dreaded prison until someone yells “get in the boat it’s time to get off this rock” so you get in and never look back at that horrible prison they call “Alcatraz.” On the night of June 11/1962 three men tried their luck escaping Alcatraz their names where Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin. The men wanted to do the unthinkable escape Alcatraz. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers died trying to escape Alcatraz on June 11, 1962.

Over the past 50 years, agents have been searching for the fugitives that escaped the night of June 11, 1962. There are stories from the relatives that claim that John and Clarence Anglin have been living in Brazil. Although, their is not much information on Frank Lee Morris. Some assume he didn't make it of separated from the brothers as soon as they got to land. Besides papers with no return address and weird evidence, their have been sightings of the brothers and beliefs of them going to their mother funeral. All this adds up to the possibility that the Anglin brothers, and possibly Frank Morris, surviving the Alcatraz escape.

Alive or Dead? No one knows except for the three escapees. About 56 years ago Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers Clarence and John escaped Alcatraz. To this day it has been a mystery about weather or not they survived the escape. Some believe they died do to the cold water but I have four facts to prove they escaped alive and could be alive today.

live on the island. A few were even commissioned to baby sit young children who

Alcatraz was known for holding some of the most dangerous men ever, and 3 of them escaped and where never seen again. The jail was shut down a year later because of all the failed escape attempts. Alcatraz is now a lost prison located on the San Francisco Bay, not used and only a tourist

    To begin with there were only fourteen, dangerous and daring escape attempts over the years that Alcatraz was open. All were caught except three men, Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin they escaped on June 11th, 1962. Their ingenious plan took several months to prepare for; they chipped holes in the concrete in the back of their cells to get up to the cell block.  Allen West, a prisoner, who on top of the cell block at the prison and was part of the escape, he persuaded the guards to let him put up blankets across the walls. On top of the cell

“The Battle of Alcatraz”, one of the island’s bloodiest escape attempts took place in 1946. Seventeen years later, in 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered Alcatraz penitentiary to close. A nineteen month occupation of American-Indian tribes began in the year of 1969. In 1972, Alcatraz was designated a National Park Service site and in 1973, Alcatraz became open to the public. The history of Alcatraz is very important when learning about all of the unique qualities of Alcatraz. (Barter 8 and 9)

There is a quote saying, “ Break the rules and you go to prison, break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz”? It is about the prison Alcatraz! It is the place where the convicts of the century were prisoned, like Al Capone, Birdman, Machinegun Kelly, and others. In the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Alcatraz is featured in a downloadable zombie survival map called "Mob of the Dead"(10 fascinating facts about Alcatraz 7) . It might be interesting to know about history of this amazing island and children there.