00:00On the night of June 11th, 1962, Alcatraz got the story that would define it forever.
00:05Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers slipped out through holes they'd spent months widening
00:10with sharpened spoons. They left dummy heads behind, paper mache, soap, their own hair,
00:16propped on the pillows, so the night guards walked right past. They climbed through a ventilation
00:21shaft, made it to the roof, pushed off into San Francisco Bay on a raft they'd stitched from
00:27raincoats. And then nobody knows. The FBI says they drowned. Meanwhile, the U.S. Marshals keep the
00:34case officially open. No bodies, no raft, a few mysterious phone calls, photos that surfaced
00:40decades later that may or may not show the Anglin brothers in Brazil. And that's the perfect Alcatraz
00:46story. Just enough evidence to investigate, not enough evidence to solve, and enough ambiguity
00:52to keep Alcatraz lodged in the American imagination.
Comments