55 years later, the escape from Alcatraz is still a mystery, Archive

On June 11, 1962, after the lights went out for the night inside the notorious federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, inmates Frank Morris and the brothers Clarence and John Anglin began a bold escape. (Morris had previously broken out of Angola before being re-captured and sent to Alcatraz.) The trio of bank robbers placed fake heads made of toilet paper and soap, complete with hair collected from the prison barber, into their beds to fool the guards.

55 years later, the escape from Alcatraz is still a mystery, Archive

Daring Escape From Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz: 50 years later, mystery remains

These are the dummy heads used by inmates Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Anglin from when they made their escape from the notorious Alcatraz Island penitentiary on the night of June

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