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Alcatraz, the rock.

No one has ever escaped from this prison.

This is Frank Morris, armed robbery, burglary, grand larceny.

Morris has escaped from many prisons, but Alcatraz could be the exception.

Oh, that's exciting. That is exciting.

And then Clint Eastwood and his other two guys from the movie Escape from Alcatraz,

they escape, but they can't leave you hanging. They make it or not.

I always assume they drowned.

And then finally, after all these years, we now think we have an answer.

1962 John Anglin, Lawrence Anglin, Frank Morris, tried to escape from Alcatraz.

The authorities said they drowned, let her just resurface, saying, my name is John Anglin.

I escaped from Alcatraz in June 1962. How exciting is this?

Jolyne Babiaks, an author and Alcatraz expert, and joins us. Now, Jolyne, how are you?

I'm good. Thank you.

So listen, why don't you remind us about the break, the attempt to escape in 1962,

for those who haven't seen the movie recently or read about it recently, and then we'll talk about the letter.

But go ahead, what happened in 1962?

Three inmates actually placed homemade masks in their beds and plumped up some pillows and blankets.

And got through a wall that they'd been digging on for about five and a half, six months.

Got into a utility corridor, climbed the pipes to the ceiling where they had already opened the ceiling vent and got out on the roof

and ran across and down by the water tower on Alcatraz.

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