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Beneath the cover of evening on June 11, 1962, only using crude homemade tools, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin tunneled their way to avoid it of Alcatraz, America's soundest maximum security prison. Enacting a complicated get away from plan, the trio broke free from the cellblock, made it undetected earlier patrolling guards, inflated homemade life vests and a raft, and place sail into a foggy background. Made famous by the traditional film Get away from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood and multiple Hollywood documentaries, this renowned mystery is still debated on the half century later. Considered America's Devil Island, Alcatraz opened up in August 1934 with the objective to carefully turn the spectacularly bright colored dispositions of America's worst criminals into an environment of black and white. Cramped cells, stern discipline, demanding guidelines, and an unrelenting usual shaped almost every aspect of daily life on the Rock. The island was an all natural fortress, segregated from the mainland with a small strait of frigid drinking water and fatal currents. It had been believed that nobody could avoid alive. With its damp frigid and austere isolation, Alcatraz was the toughest of most national penitentiaries - as hard as the criminals housed there - and it efficiently contained some of America's most notorious outlaws. In Escaping Alcatraz: The Untold Storyline of the best Prison Rest in American Record, Alcatraz historian Michael Esslinger and David Widner, nephew of the Anglin brothers, both featured in the annals Route documentary Alcatraz: Search for the Truth, have put together FBI and Bureau of Prisons investigative notes, original source documents from the Anglin family collection, inmate case document records, interviews with key convicts and officers, and first-person accounts of officials who looked into the escape to create one of the very most specific narratives of the famed prison break.