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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

25: The Prisoner

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The craziest prison break story you've never heard of.

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0:30.4

This is the way I heard it.

0:38.4

Hollywood loves a good prison break.

0:40.7

From the count of Monte Cristo to Cool Hand Luke,

0:43.4

America will always root for a man unjustly imprisoned

0:47.2

who tries to break free.

0:49.0

Which is why it's so odd that Hollywood has yet to tell us the true story of wit

0:54.8

and his remarkable escape from the worst prison in the world.

0:59.3

Witt was a model citizen, an army veteran and 40-year-old father

1:03.0

who had never broken the law, much less been to jail.

1:06.0

Now he was serving a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit

1:09.4

and living a daily nightmare that made Attica and Alcatraz

1:12.7

sound like a trip to Disneyland.

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