ENCORE I ALCATRAZ Ep. 1: “Fortress of Isolation"

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The history of Alcatraz Island is written by the escape attempts. In the earliest days of American occupation, it was a fort. And from the very beginning, military prisoners tried to escape. As the fort became obsolete, the facility transitioned into a full-time military prison, and prisoners kept trying to escape. Then barracks on the island are converted into a civilian prison, and the real escape attempts begin. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	4th Alcatraz was naturally remote and heavily fortified, but that didn't stop friends
0:19.6	of Tom Poole from plotting to break him out.
0:23.2	In March of 1863, 54-year-old Tom Poole and 19 other men gathered in a dark alley behind
0:29.8	a hotel in San Francisco, California.
0:33.0	They crept past saloons and sailors boarding houses on the Embarcadero.
0:38.1	Poole, a former sheriff, and the others boarded a schooner mort at the waterfront.
0:43.7	They quietly pushed the ship away from the wharf and anchored it in the bay to prepare
0:47.9	to sail a daybreak.
0:50.1	Then they all went below to sleep for a few hours.
0:53.9	Poole's plan was to disguise the ship as a cargo vessel bound for Mexico, but once
0:58.9	they cleared the strait between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, they planned to
1:03.2	toss their cargo overboard.
1:06.4	They had secretly outfitted the ship as a Confederate privateer.
1:10.8	They had two cannons and a large quantity of rifles, revolvers, and swords.
1:16.7	They planned to ambush male steamers laden with gold and silver, and then circle Cape Horn
1:21.9	and deliver the money to the Confederacy.
1:25.0	For weeks, police on the west coast had been hearing rumors that Confederates were attempting
1:29.5	to outfit commercial raiding ships.
1:33.1	The morning after Tom Poole and his men took over the ship, they were swarmed by Marines
1:37.9	and police.
1:39.5	The federal government charged the pirates with treason and imprisoned them at Fort
1:43.8	Alcatraz to await trial.
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