May 10, 2018
Alcatraz
Clarence Anglin
Frank Morris
John Anglin
Micaela Cruz
I had heard about this story several times before but what I didn’t known was how these three men pulled off such a daring and very risky plan. I don’t exactly find what these three men were able to do admirable but I do find it genius the way they managed to create a raft as well as fake heads to place in their beds. The aftermath of their escape is what puzzles so many people still to this day; did they live? did they die? The world may never know but perhaps maybe one day we will learn what truly happened on that fateful night in 1962.
30/08/2018
10:06 am
Martina Rodriguez
Very well written! I was surprised that it took only one year for the three to plan such an elaborate escape. The information about pre-prison Alcatraz was fascinating…I had no idea it was used as a fort at one point in time. I also was surprised that the waters around Alcatraz are so dangerous. I cannot believe that they were able to hid the tunnels they were digging from the guards with “elaborate cardboard”. I loved how the author included that tidbit about the Battle of Alcatraz. Ultimately, the biggest surprise from the whole article was that they were never found.
31/08/2018
10:06 am
Mason Meza
I have heard stories about Alcatraz and how it was supposedly impossible to escape. I have also heard the story of the three men who made it out of Alcatraz, but we do not know whether or not they are alive. I had always believed that they were dead, but now, after reading this article and seeing that there is a possible picture of them, and that John sent a letter stating that the other two were dead but that he would turn himself in for medical treatment because he had cancer. This completely changed my mind. I also never knew that Alcatraz was a former Military used prison. This article did a very good job of explaining the history of Alcatraz and the Greatest Escape.
31/08/2018
10:06 am
Belene Cuellar
I found this article to be very interesting overall, it kept me guessing what was gonna happen next and I was never got bored reading this piece. The amount of planning that went into this grand escape is extraordinary for just anyone to pull off. I honestly think that these prisoners are still out there in hiding because no bodies have been identified and they are simply too smart to have just died out at sea.
01/09/2018
10:06 am
Bictor Martinez
Escaping the high maximum security prison Alcatraz is can be something you can put on your resume. These three men were able to fool such high tech security while using such limited tools. I believe that these men did not survive making it to shore. With the amount of temperature the waters are at and fast tides can be really dangerous for these men to make it safely to shore. You never really get to hear many stories of people escaping Alcatraz because people only with such intelligence are able to pull this off such as these men.
02/09/2018
10:06 am
Peter Coons
Alcatraz has always been engraved in the American mind as the most secure prison of it’s time. Obviously today, a standard jail in a backwater county makes The Rock look like a joke. However, the mystery of three men with nothing to loose, making it across the bay to freedom has always perplexed pop culture. Every year, plenty of documentaries come out trying to prove that the escape was a succsess. We’ll never know for sure, most likely, but I like to think that it worked. As for the story of them running down to Brazil, that is another mystery entirely.
02/09/2018
10:06 am
Didier Cadena
This was a very interesting article. I have only heard a little bit about this escape, so this article helped me understand the full story of the escape. It is hard to tell if all three men were able to make it out alive, but it would be fun to think that they could have survived. The article does a great job of putting all of the information together and still make it interesting to read.
02/09/2018
10:06 am
Sabrina Hsu
I’ve always known what Alcatraz was but I was never aware that it was the country’s very first maximum security prison. These three men had to be really clever to be able to find the way to escape a place that is supposed to keep the worst of the worst criminals. I’m really interested in what happened to them, I wish the FBI had found out if they lived and if the letter was real or not. I wonder if the picture really was them, but I also wonder how the family member even got the picture. Overall this story of how they escaped and what came after is probably one of the most interesting crime stories I have ever read and I am glad I read it.
02/09/2018
10:06 am
Roman Olivera
Though many of us know about Alcatraz being an inescapable prison, many people don’t know its uses prior to it being a prison. All of it’s uses have been significant to include the light house, military fort and eventually a military prison before it being a prison housing the most dangerous men in America. In regards to the men actually surviving the escape from Alcatraz, I believe that they did. Though the government might not want us to believe that they escaped, it would have been more important for the people of that time and the prisoners to believe that there was a place that could never be escaped from and that it still had never been done. I do believe that there were sightings of the men and that the government was monitoring the brothers in another country without chance of extradition back to America. Whatever the case, the men did successfully escape Alcatraz, the question is did the men make it land. If they did, then they pulled off the greatest prison escape in american history. Either way, we will never know the truth and the escape from Alcatraz Prison is a story of legend.
02/09/2018
10:06 am
Cooper Dubrule
I found this article really interesting because I was fortunate enough to visit Alcatraz a couple of years ago. It was amazing, and how this story flowed with excellent detail really revived the memories of seeing the actual place where these men were. I had never known they had a workshop on the roof however and I find that really interesting that they managed to make all the effective equipment that they did.
29/08/2018
10:06 am