The Legend True Or False: Alcatraz

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Alcatraz Alcatraz is the legend true or false, will anyone ever find out the clues to this legend. How do we know if they made it out alive, or did they die in the process. Did the boat they make really work in water, or did it sink. How did they know what to do to escape the prison, did they know where they was going. Alcatraz was originally a naval defense fortification back in the 1850’s, Alcatraz was out on an island in the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco. Alcatraz opened up as a prison in 1934, they considered it one of the biggest toughest prisons ever. Frank Morris arrived too the prison in January of 1960, he did his first crime at the age of 13. Morris spent pretty much most of …show more content…

They was serving time for robbing a bank, in the system they was known as veterans of the prison. Anglin brothers and Morris became really good friends. They started to plot an escape route together to get out of prison. They made their escape on June 11, 1962, they spent months digging through air vents with spoons they got from the cafeteria. They made dummies out of paper,soap, and actual hair , they made a boat out of more than 50 raincoats they got from other inmates. They made their escape, but they had to leave a man behind because he was unable to get through the grill. They had to climb over 30 feet of the plumbing system to get to the roof. Crossed the rooftop that was about 100 feet, and going down about 50 feet down to the shower area.

The legend is that they made their way to Marin County, to steal a car and rob a store, then they would all be on their own. Some say that they died and that a Norwegian freighter spotted a “floating body” over by the Golden Gate Bridge, they claimed that it looked like the body was wearing the same clothes a prisoner. But they never actually found the bodies of the three guys, so to this day it’s proven that they could still be living and living among us. They closed the prison down a year after the escape, and turned it into a National

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