The Amazing True Story Of The Great Escape From Alcatraz

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The four of them slowly started to put their plan into motion. Let’s give credit where credit is due: it required a lot of patience, skill, and intelligence to quietly collect the necessary resources for the plan they hatched up.

They knew that their absence would be felt once they departed their cell, so they worked on making life-sized dummies of themselves to keep in the bed once they left! They also needed a way to get off the island once they left their cell. The guards in those days were not as nice as they are today – they would have been killed on the spot.