How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 1962, three ordinary criminals transcended into folk heroes when they crawled out of their cells in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to the water in a homemade raft and were never heard from again. Could they have possibly survived?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:30.8	Hey everybody, it's us and we're here to talk to you about Get This, our book.
0:34.6	We have a Stuff You Should Know book coming out this November and you're going to love it
0:38.4	and you can pre-order it now.
0:40.0	That's right, it's called Stuff You Should Know.
0:42.3	Colin, an incomplete compendium of mostly interesting things.
0:48.0	And it's been a lot of fun to work on and we're really, I mean, genuinely excited about
0:52.4	how this thing has come together.
0:53.7	Yep, it's 26 chunky, hairy chapters that are just going to knock your socks clean off
0:59.4	and yes, Chuck, we are indeed proud of this book.
1:02.9	It is truly indubitably the first Stuff You Should Know book and it's coming out this
1:07.1	November and you can order it now, pre-order everywhere you get books.
1:12.0	So do that and we thank you in advance.
1:16.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:26.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:27.6	I'm Josh, there's Chuck, Jerry's out there in the ether somewhere like that one kid being
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