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The Great Escape from Alcatraz

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Essential questions before reading

This is Alcatraz Island. Have you ever heard of it? What do you think these buildings on

the island are for?

Why would someone want to escape from this place?

What rights do all people deserve?

When does the government have the right to restrict the freedom of people?

What is the relationship between freedom and responsibility?

What is the purpose of law in society?


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Background on Alcatraz Island:

Alcatraz Island is a small island in the San

Francisco bay. The island was discovered by the

Spanish (Juan de Ayala) in 1775 and covers less

than 19 acres. The name comes from the Spanish

word "Alcatraces", meaning "Pelicans". With the

California gold rush, the island was home to a

lighthouse that was built in 1853. After that, the US

army wanted the island for protection of the San

Francisco bay. Later on, from 1907 to 1934,

Alcatraz was a location for a military prison until the

US Department of Justice took it over in 1934. From

1934 to March of 1963, it was a federal prison,

housing some of the most infamous criminals, such

as Al Capone. The prison closed for good in 1963

and has since been abandoned. In 1969, a group of

American Indians tried to claim the island, but

were unsuccessful. Since then, Alcatraz became a

landmark and part of the United States system of

National Parks.

Information found http://www.sky-chaser.com/alcatraz.htm

How much things cost in 1935 How much things cost in 2016

Average wages per year $1,600.00 Average wages per year $50,000.00

Average Cost of new house $3,450.00 Average Cost of new house $240,880.00

Average New Car Price $625.00 Average New Car Price $28,000.00

Cost of a gallon of Gas $0.10 Cost of a liter of Gas $1.23

US Postage Stamp $0.03 US Postage Stamp $0.52

Dozen Eggs $0.18 Dozen Eggs $1.52

Loaf of Bread $0.08 Loaf of Bread $2.69

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San Francisco, California-USA

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was the most famous prison in America.It was

supposed to be escape-proof.But, on the night of July 11, 1962, three of its prisoners managed

to escape and were never seen again.What happened to these three men?How did they escape

from this maximum security island prison?

Alcatraz prison is located on Alcratraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, two

kilometers from San Francisco.The island, nicknamed “The Rock,” became a prison in

1933.Alcatraz was thought to be America’s strongest prison because of its combination of

high tech security and its location in the cold water and strong currents of the San Francisco

Bay.

The infamous prison held America’s most dangerous and troublemaking

prisoners.Ruthless criminals, gangsters, bank robbers and escapees from other prisons were

brought to Alcatraz to serve their prison time.Four of these prisoners were bank robbing

brothers John and Clarence Anglin, robber Frank Morris and Allen West, a violent car thief.

The brothers John and Clarence Anglin were brought to Alcatraz after attempting to

escape the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary several times.The Anglin brothers were dangerous

criminals with a long history of violent crime.

Frank Morris was well known in the American prison system as an escape artist.He was

very smart, and he had tried to escape every prison he had been locked in.Because of his

bad reputation, worried prison officials decided to send Morris to “escape-proof” Alcatraz.

Frank Morris


Allen West was at Alcatraz for his second time, and he knew a lot about the building. West

noticed some weaknesses in the concrete prison walls while cleaning a corridor behind the

cells one day.He thought that an escape through the corridor might be possible, and he talked

to Morris and the Anglin brothers about what he had found.

The escape plan started with the three men making chisels out of metal spoons stolen from

the cafeteria.They found that the concrete in their cells could be slowly broken with their

small chisels, and they dug holes through the back walls of their cells.Their plan was to

make a large enough hole in their cells’ walls so that they could break through to the

corridor behind and climb to the top of the prison building.

The Anglin brothers’ cells were next to each other, and Morris and West’s cells were

side by side as well.While one man dug a hole in his wall, the other would watch outside the

cell to make sure guards couldn't see what they were doing.Finally, Morris and the Anglin

brothers each made a hole large enough to squeeze through into the corridor.West hadn’t

broken through his wall yet, and stayed in his cell.

The three men opened up a secret workshop on the top of the prison building. There they

made dummy heads from soap, toilet paper, and hair from the prison’s barber shop.For six

weeks, the three men worked on building the fake heads and a raft from over 50 rubber

raincoats borrowed from other prisoners. Many prisoners knew what the men were doing,

but they wanted to help the men escape and kept their work a secret.


Frank Morris’ dummy head One of the chiseled cell wall

On the night of July 11, 1962, the weather was perfect and the four men decided that it was

time to go.Guards would go around at night and count the heads in bed, but the men put the

fake heads in their beds to fool the guards.

Allen West finally tried to break through his wall, but he couldn’t get through. Morris and

the Anglin brothers tried to help him break through the wall, but the concrete wouldn’t

budge and they had to leave him behind.

Allen West Allen West’s Cell B-140

The three men cut through a ventilation cover on the roof of the prison and climbed to the top

of the building.They carefully avoided the prison guards watching from the lighthouse, used a

rope to climb 15 meters down the side of the prison building, and ran to the edge of the

island.There they inflated their raft and disappeared into the San Francisco Bay.

The prison guards didn’t know that the men were gone until they discovered the fake

heads the next morning. By then, the men had been gone for about 12 hours.The prison,

police and FBI immediately began a huge search for the men, but the three escapees were

never found.Five days after the escape, a postcard arrived at the San Francisco office of the

FBI.The message read “Haha, we made it.”


Did Morris and the Anglin brothers really make it? Experts think that the escape

would have been very difficult but possible.The water in the San Francisco Bay is very cold,

and the currents are strong.Was their raft strong enough to hold them in the rough waters of

the bay?No one is sure, but experts have re-created the men’s raft and found that building a

raft out of Alcatraz rain coats is possible.

While there were 14 escape attempts from Alcatraz, Morris and the Anglin brothers

are the only prisoners to escape Alcatraz and not be caught or shot while trying to get

away.Over the years there were many rumors that the men had escaped to Mexico, and the

FBI found Spanish language textbooks in their prison cells.When the Anglin brothers’

mother died, two unusual looking large people dressed in women’s clothing were seen at her

funeral.Were these two “women” the Anglin brothers in disguise?We’ll probably never

know.

Alcatraz Federal Prison closed one year after the escape in 1963 because of the high

costs of operating an island prison.The Alcatraz Prison is now a popular tourist destination

and part of the U.S. National Parks.Now people can buy tickets to go inside the prison, learn

about its history, and feel what daily life was like for prisoners.A visit to Alcatraz also helps

visitors to understand how difficult the challenge was that Frank Morris and the Anglin

brothers faced in their famous escape attempt.

John William Anglin - Alcatraz Inmate # 1476 Clarence Anglin - Alcatraz Inmate #1485

John Anglin's Cell Clarence Anglin's Cell - B-152


.Alcatraz Escape – The insight story

Frank Lee Morris. In the movie entitled "Escape from Alcatraz" starring actor Clint Eastwood,

Morris was accurately portrayed as the keen and brilliant mastermind of one of the most famous

prison escapes in history. The escape plan took several months to If there was ever an inmate

who was destined to escape from Alcatraz, it was design, and it would necessitate the

fabrication of clever decoys and water survival gear.

Frank Lee Morris had spent a lifetime navigating the prison system before his arrival on

Alcatraz. From his infant years until his teens Morris was shuffled from one foster home to

another, and he was convicted of his first crime at the youthful age of only thirteen. By the time

he reached his later teens, Morris's criminal record would include a multitude of crimes ranging

from narcotics possession to armed robbery, and he had become a professional inhabitant of the

correctional system. He spent his formative years in a boys' training school, and then graduated

to a series of ever larger penitentiaries.

Morris was credited by prison officials as possessing superior intelligence, and he earned his

ticket to Alcatraz by building an impressive resume of escapes. In 1960, Federal officials

decided that his pattern of escape attempts, termed as "shotgun freedom" (although his escapes

had never involved the use of a shotgun), would end at The Rock. On January 18, 1960, Morris

disembarked from the prison launch and became inmate #AZ-1441.

Frank's accomplices in the "Great Escape" were equally well acquainted with the dark world of

organized crime. Brothers John and Clarence Anglin were also serving sentences at Alcatraz for

bank robbery, having been convicted along with their brother Alfred. All three had been

incarcerated at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta when they first became acquainted with

Morris, and John and Clarence were eventually sent to Alcatraz following a sequence of

attempted escapes.

Alcatraz inmate Allen West, who occupied an adjacent cell, was also brought in on the scheme.

He was serving his second term on The Rock and carried a reputation as an arrogant criminal,

and he knew John Anglin from the State Penitentiary in Florida.


The escape plan started to take shape in December of 1961, beginning with a collection of

several old saw blades that West allegedly found in one of the utility corridors while cleaning.

In later interviews, West would take credit for masterminding the clever escape.

The plan was extremely complex and involved the design and fabrication of ingenious lifelike

dummies, water rafts, and life preservers, fashioned from over fifty rain coats that had been

acquired from other inmates - some donated and some stolen. They would also require a variety

of crudely made tools to dig with, and to construct the accessories necessary for the escape. By

May of 1962, Morris and the Anglins and had already dug through the cell's six-by-nine-inch

vent holes, and had started work on the vent on top of the cellblock.

The Anglins inhabited adjacent cells, as did West and Morris, who also resided nearby. The

inmates alternated shifts, with one working and one on lookout. They would start work at 5:30

p.m. and continue till about 9:00 p.m., just prior to the lights-out count. Meanwhile John and

Clarence started fabricating the dummy heads, and even gave them the pet names of "Oink" and

"Oscar." The heads were crude but lifelike, and were constructed from a homemade cement-

powder mixture that included such innocuous materials as soap and toilet paper. They were

decorated with flesh-tone paint from prison art kits, and human hair from the barbershop.

Using glue stolen from the glove shop, the inmates also started working to cut and bond the

raincoats into a makeshift raft and life preservers. Each evening following the completion of

their self-imposed work detail, they would hide the materials on top of the cellblock to

minimize any chance of being caught with the contraband materials. The inmates also acquired

an elaborate array of handmade tools. West was able to lift an electric hair clipper while

working on a paint detail in the barbershop, and he used the clippers, along with drill bits stolen

from the Industries by another inmate, to fashion a makeshift motorized drill. However the

motor proved be too small, and thus the project would require more effective equipment.

Contemporary photos of the actual tools fashioned by the inmates to aid in their escape. The

crudely made wrench was used effectively to remove the bolts on the rooftop ventilator grill.


Actual tool used by the inmates to chip away the cement around the grill.

By a stroke of good luck, West had recently learned that the prison's vacuum had broken. He

was permitted to attempt a repair, and while inspecting the machine, he found that it had two

motors. He carefully removed one, and was able to get the other working, thus deflecting

suspicion. Morris and the Anglins were then able to use the vacuum motor for their drill. They

attempted to drill out the roof ventilator, but with only limited success. The motor proved too

noisy, and it was not very effective.

After months of long preparation the inmates had completed fashioning all of the gear they

needed for their escape, and they then continued working to loosen the ventilator grill on top of

the cellhouse. John Anglin carefully completed the valve assembly on a large six-by-fourteen-

foot raft, while Morris modified an accordion-like musical instrument called a concertina,

which would be used to rapidly inflate the raft. But while the others had progressed well in their

various preparations, West had fallen behind in digging out the ventilator grill at the rear of his

cell. His primary role had been to construct the life preservers and special wooden paddles for

the raft, tasks which didn't require him to leave his cell. On the night of June 11, 1962, Morris

indicated that the top ventilator was loose enough, and that he felt that they were ready to

attempt the escape.

The rooftop ventilator grill.

An officer photographs the ventilator removed by the inmates


At 9:30 p.m., immediately after lights-out, Morris brought down the dummies from the top of

the cellblock and announced that the escape would be staged that very night. Clarence Anglin

attempted to assist West in removing his ventilator grill by kicking at it from outside of the cell

in the utility corridor, but his efforts were unsuccessful. Morris and the Anglins would have no

choice but to leave him behind.

The inmates made their final thirty-foot climb up the plumbing to the cellhouse roof, traversed

100 feet across the rooftop, and then carefully maneuvered down fifty feet of piping to the

ground near the entrance to the shower area. This would be the last anyone ever saw of Morris

and the Anglin Brothers.

In a later interview, West said that their plan had been to use their raft to make their way to

Angel Island. After resting, they would then reenter the Bay on the opposite side of the island

and swim through a waterway called Raccoon Straits, then on into Marin.

They would steal a car, burglarize a clothing store, and then venture out in their own separate

directions. West had finally been able to complete the removal of his grill and climb to the

rooftop, but by then all of the other inmates had disappeared. With no raft or other means of

escape, he was forced to return to his cell.

SPECULATIONS

For decades speculated abounded as to whether this famous escape attempt had been successful.

The FBI spent several years investigating, and later resolved that the inmates' plan had failed.

The following are only a few of the key points resulting from the investigation which cast doubt

on the success of the famous escape from Alcatraz by Frank Morris and John and Clarence

Anglin:

The Morris and Anglins' escape later inspired the Hollywood motion picture Escape from

Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood.


The formal plan was to steal a car and then perpetrate a burglary at a clothing store. No reports

of any such crimes were filed in Marin County within a twelve-day period following the escape.

Sources reported that these three men had neither friends nor relatives with the financial

resources to come to San Francisco and assist in the escape.

It would have cost thousands of dollars to put a boat in the Bay night after night, waiting for the

one night when the escape actual took place. There would have been no way to communicate

with outside contacts in order to confirm the date of the break and the progress of their

preparations.

Critics on the other side of the debate claimed that the fact that no bodies were found amounted

to "proof" that the inmates had made it successfully to the mainland. The reality was that it was

fairly common for people who perished in the Bay waters never to be found. In fact, on the very

night of the escape, an African American gentleman named Seymour Webb, reportedly

despondent over a failed relationship, abandoned his car mid-span on the Golden Gate Bridge

and jumped to his death in front of numerous eyewitnesses.

Despite a quick response from the Coast Guard, his body was never recovered. The

significance of this event is that the suicide entered the water at about the same time as the

escapees, and his body was never found or recovered.

Exterior of Frank Morris's Cell Utility Corridor - Rear of Cell 152


The Bay water temperatures ranged from fifty to fifty-four degrees. It was determined that

exposure to the elements would have affected body functions after approximately twenty

minutes. The showers at Alcatraz were always supplied with moderately hot water, in order to

hinder inmates from becoming acclimated to the freezing Bay waters. Personal items carried by

the inmates were found floating in the Bay the following day.

Also found was a life preserver with heavy teeth marks on the valve. It was believed that the

homemade clip to seal the valve had failed, making it difficult for the swimmer to stay afloat.

On July 17, 1962 the Ship SS Norefjell, a Norwegian Freighter departing from Pier 38, reported

seeing a body floating twenty miles northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge. The ship was en

route to Canada, and the crew failed to report the sighting until October. The sailors had noticed

something bobbing in the water, and used binoculars to confirm that it was a body floating face

down. The hands and feet were dangling down in the water, but the buttocks were clearly

visible.

Although bleached by the ocean and sun, the body was clothed in full-length denim trousers

that appeared identical to prison issue uniforms. Coroners from San Francisco, San Mateo,

Alameda, and Marin Counties all confirmed that a body could float for five weeks after

drowning. The FBI determined this to be one of the most significant leads in the case.

Their official report established that there were no other individuals missing or drowned at that

time who had been wearing similar trousers.

The families of the Anglins stated that the escape had been a topic of family discussions for

several years. None of them had ever been contacted by the brothers, and they felt that the men

would have made contact in some form if they had survived. The Anglin family would soon

suffer yet another tragedy. The third brother, Alfred, was electrocuted while attempting to

escape from Kilby Prison in Montgomery Alabama in 1964.

The intriguing mystery of this escape is still being explored decades after the fact, and over a

million visitors each year make the trip to Alcatraz to witness firsthand the scene of the crime.


The Greatest Escape from Alcatraz - Another Chapter...

After decades of investigating, the F.B.I concluded that there were more key findings indicative

of a failed escape rather than any findings or evidence that would suggest any of the inmates

found their way to freedom. In the end, there was never any credible land based evidence that

would lend to a positive outcome for any of the inmates.

A little known fact about the famed “great escape,” is that there were initially six accomplices!

June Stephens (1225-AZ), had been brought into the plan as early as December and occupied a

cell on the third tier, directly above Morris and the Anglin Brothers. During a prison-wide

shakedown following the escape , there were also holes found around the ventilation grill inside

the cell of Robert L. Williams (1184-AZ). Williams, serving time for murder, later denied any

direct involvement, but Stephens admitted his role and later revealed that Frank Morris asked

him to withdraw due to three issues that he had felt would ultimately compromise their escape

plan.

The first was that each cell was having an additional water spout for warm water installed.

While the backsides of the cells at ground level would be easy to conceal for officer

inspections, there would be no way to conceal holes located at the backsides of the upper tier

cells.

Additionally, once the inmates had completed cutting around their grills, there was a risk that

loose sections of the cement or grill could fall and alert officers to the escape plot. Finally, if

they were successful going undetected, maneuvering out of the hole only being able to hold the

pipes at such a high elevation would be much more difficult, not to mention it would be too

dangerous emerging from a confined space at that height.


While Stephens role in the escape was believed to end five months prior to the date the plan

was executed, his interviews with officials offered detailed descriptions on how the inmates

carefully planning and effected their escape. While Robert Williams completely denied his role,

Stephens later revealed that Morris and Williams worked together in the Glove Shop and stated

that “Williams probably had a significant role” as both he and

Morris “were close friends” and that he helped secure many of the articles that were used in the

escape. Stephens was later tried and convicted for his role in the escape and sent to isolation.

Stephen’s died in November of 1995 and Williams in May of 2006.

Crew members from the Freighter Ship Norefjell filed an official report stating they had seen a

body floating about twenty miles west of the Golden Gate. While historians share different

theories on why West didn’t make it out, both West and Stephens both provided one common

story that would suggest that West was left behind.


Other accomplices

Alcatraz Inmate June Stephens was later confirmed by the F.B.I. as being an accomplice to the

1962 Alcatraz Escape.

Holes found around the ventilator grill of June Stephen's cell on the third tier.

Inmate Robert Williams considered a close associate of Frank Lee Morris, where they worked

together in the Glove Shop at Alcatraz. Williams was serving a life sentence for murder.


An official F.B.I. Investigative Report provided the following statement of the escape:

F.B.I. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY REPORT

An authorized complaint was filed June 13, 1962 before USC, San Francisco, charging

escapees Morris and Anglin brothers with violation of title 18, section 751, U. S. Code. Federal

warrants issued in bond recommended in the amount of $50,000 each. USA, San Francisco,

withholding prosecution at this time:

‘’on June 12, 1962, at 7:15 AM, Frank Lee Morris, Alcatraz number 1441; John William

Anglin, Alcatraz number 1476; and Clarence Anglin, Alcatraz number 1485, all inmates the

United States penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California, were discovered missing from their cells

by officers of the penitentiary. Dummy faces were found in their beds.

Their exit had been accomplished by digging holes in the back walls in the ventilator areas of

their cells. Crawling through these holes into the utility corridor, they used the plumbing pipes

to crawl on top of the third tier of cells. Thence, they broke out onto the roof of the cell house

through bars any ventilator lid. They climbed down from the roof on the large pipe at the rear

of the cell house and went over the fence, proceeding down steep embankments to the north east

shore of the island in the vicinity of the power plant.

A similar hole was discovered in Allen West’s cell, Alcatraz number 1335, as well as dummy

face, Wes stated they were to escape together, but the hole in the cell was not quite completed.

At 9:37 PM on June 11, 1962, Morris went to get one of the Anglin's to assist West but they

never returned. Later that night West completed the hole in his cell and proceeded to the roof

but they were gone. These articles have been stored on top the third cell tier under the cell

house roof were escapees had worked on the same in the evenings after breaking out of their

cells. West returned to his cell and went to bed. He said they had planned to escape to Angel

Island in San Francisco Bay, and then to the mainland. Upon arrival to the shore, they had

planned to inflate the raft with a concertina which they had made into a bellows. They would

then commit burglary to obtain guns and clothing and then steal a car to go as far from the Bay

Area is possible beyond that no plans were formulated.’’

‘’Subjects at large are all convicted bank robbers and should be considered extremely

dangerous.


ACTIVITIES

A) Summary of “The Great Escape From Alcatraz”

“Escape From Alcatraz” is about

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The main purpose of Alcatraz was to

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Inmates experienced tough conditions, such as

It was difficult to escape from Alcatraz because

Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers managed to break out of the prison by

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Officials concluded that

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But many people still believe that the escapees might

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Vocabulary

1. Complete the sentences with the vocabulary words and sayings below.

landmark ventilation budge dummy chisel huge corridor raft inflate convict

ruthless infamous current lighthouse

1. Someone who is cruel and has no feeling for others is .

2. A is a passage that connects parts of a building.

3. The head in Frank Morris’ cell wasn’t real; it was a .

4. Balloons are usually d with air or helium.

5. is needed to keep fresh air moving through a building.

6. Alcatraz was because it had a reputation as a bad place.

7. The strong in the San Francisco Bay makes it dangerous for

swimmers.

8. The man tried to push the broken truck, but it wouldn’t __________________

9. A is a small tool made from steel used for shaping wood and stone.

10. A is a tower with a very bright light that helps guide ships.

11. Alcatraz has become a __________________ in the San Fransisco bay area

12. Morris and the Anglins presumably used a ________ to float on the waters.

13. A _________ search for the missing prisoners took place right after their

disappearance.

14. Morris was _____________ed of his first crime when he was only thirteen.

15. To go through a tiny hole, the inmate has to ______________ his body to the max.


2. Vocabulary associating and matching

a. Directions: In each line of words, circle the word that does not belong.

1. barren clever imprison ponder warden

2. fruitful brilliant incarcerate ignore guard

3. productive ingenious release suppose prisoner

4. lush unskilled constrain speculate keeper

b. Directions: Next to each word in the column on the left, write the letter of the word

with the most similar meaning from the column on the right.

5. foghorn

6. barren

7. punctuate

8. fashion

9. speculate

10. ingenious

11. penitentiary

12. warden

13. incarcerate

a. officer

b. consider

c. intelligent

d. signal

e. prison

f. design

g. confine

h. accent

i. fruitless


3. New Vocabulary study

Use this worksheet to keep a record of new vocabulary words you want to learn from the

Alcatraz Escape – The insight story article

The first one is done for you:

Word in English: accurately Word in your own language:

Definition: in a way that is correct in all details; exactly.

Sentence from the article:

Morris was accurately portrayed as the keen and

brilliant mastermind

Your own example sentence: I described the situation accurately.

Knowledge rating scale Part of speech (noun/verb etc.): adverb I know it well

I have seen or heard it before

I have never seen or heard it before O

Word in English: Word in your own language:

Definition:

Sentence from the article: Your own example sentence:

Knowledge rating scale Part of speech (noun/verb etc.): I know it well


I have never seen or heard it before


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Short Answers Try to answer each question in full sentences

1. Why were the most dangerous and troublemaking criminals sent to Alcatraz?

2. How did Allen West come up with the idea for an escape?

3. How did the men’s side-by-side cells help them in their escape?

4. How did other prisoners in Alcatraz help the men escape?

5. Why did the FBI think that the men escaped to Mexico?

6. Frank Morris had become_________________________________ of the correctional system.

7. Who are Frank Morris’s

accomplices?__________________________________________________________

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8. The dummy heads were named

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9. What is the reason why Allen West didn’t escape with his

friends?______________________________________________________________

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10. What were the 3 escapee’s plan once they got

outside?______________________________________________________________

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Discussion

The escape by Morris and the Anglin brothers has been written about in several books

and even made into a Hollywood movie. Why do you think that people are so

interested what these men did? Why do you think that Alcatraz Island is a popular

tourist site?

Writing

Are there any famous stories of prison escape in Canada? If you don’t know of any, search on

the internet for an escape from a different country.Finding a story shouldn’t be too hard.There

are several very unusual prison escape stories that can be found. In your own words write about

it.(200 words)

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Can you escape from Alcatraz puzzle?


Escape from Alctratraz crosswords

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1 Alcatraz was discovered in 1775 by _______

3 First name of one of the escapees.

8 is needed to keep fresh air moving through a building.

9 the Ship SS Noretjell, a Norwegian Freighter was en route to _______

10 Morris modified an accordion-like musical instrument called a _______

11 Another word for jail

13 The_________was in charge of the investigation

15 An imitation of a real or original object, intended to be used as a practical substitute.

18 There were brothers

20 7. The strong in the San Francisco Bay makes it dangerous for swimmers

21 The FBI issued a______for the arrest of the 3 escapees in the amount of 50,000$

22 West was known to be a violent car

23 The city of California nearby Alcatraz

24 He was part of the plan but he never escaped

25 One of the dummy head was nicknamed

26 A is a passage that connects parts of a building


Down

2 The anglins attempted to escape the _______ Federal penitenciary before coming to Alcatraz

4 Alcatraz is known to be an______prison

5 Alcatraz was nicknamed ''______''

6 The famous bridge in San Fransisco

7 was later confirmed by the F.B.I. as being an accomplice to the 1962 Alcatraz Escape.

9. A is a small tool made from steel used for shaping wood and stone.

12 Another word for prisoners

14 The Anglins brothers were convicted of

16 . Someone who is cruel and has no feeling for others is

17 This prisoner had superior intelligence

19 A is a tower with a very bright light that helps guide ships.

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