ENOCRE I ALCATRAZ Ep. 2: “Blastout”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In the 1940s, the situation on Alcatraz took a dark turn. A brutal escape attempt claims two lives, but also turns a guard into a hero. And then “Doc” Barker, of the infamous Barker Gang, leads a breakout that always has a violent conclusion, and long lasting effects. 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	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:13.9	Harold Stites had seen plenty of brutality before he took his first job at Alcatraz in 1937.
0:20.6	He'd been a guard at Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.
0:23.8	He'd broken up his fair share of cellmates trying to stab each other, or beat each other.
0:29.2	But on May 23rd, 1938, Stites found himself in the middle of something new.
0:35.3	It was one of the most savage escape attempts ever seen on Alcatraz.
0:40.2	Three prisoners attacked an unarmed guard with a hammer and bludgeoned him to death.
0:45.5	Officer Stites shot and killed one of the prisoners and effectively neutralized the escape.
0:51.8	But not before the entire prison community witnessed the ever-climbing stakes of trying
0:56.2	to break out of America's most isolated and infamous prison.
1:00.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:10.1	From Black Barrow Media, this is Infamous America.
1:15.8	I'm your host, Chris Wimmer.
1:17.6	And this season we're telling some of the most infamous stories about the most notorious
1:21.6	prison in American history, Alcatraz.
1:25.9	This is Chapter 2.
1:26.9	Blast up.
1:37.2	On October 12th, 1933, the U.S. Department of Justice acquired the disciplinary barracks
1:43.0	on Alcatraz Island.
1:45.0	They modernized it and increased its security.
1:48.4	The government then placed Alcatraz in the federal prison system.
1:52.7	The rebels believed it was America's strongest prison and it was escape proof.
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