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What coconuts tell us about escaping Alcatraz


Claire.

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What Coconuts Can Tell Us About Escaping Alcatraz

When tour guides tell the story of Alcatraz, there’s always an asterisk—yes, the prison was totally inescapable except that maybe, possibly, on June 11, 1962, three men made it to shore. On that night, Frank Lee Morris and brothers Clarence and John William Anglin tunneled out of their cells where they left dummy heads sticking out of their beds. They then entered San Francisco Bay on a boat fashioned out of raincoats with homemade paddles. The official story is that they drowned in the Bay, but there has never been confirmation that they did not make it ashore.

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I saw this tale on...was it "Mysteries at the Museum"?hmmm can't remember but interesting nonetheless!

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What Coconuts Can Tell Us About Escaping Alcatraz?   You'd need to have been nuts to try it.

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