The Amazing True Story Of The Great Escape From Alcatraz

The Start

Coincidentally, all four prisoners had served in Atlanta Penitentiary before arriving at Alcatraz, which might explain how they quickly trusted each other to execute the plan. Either they considered themselves ‘home friends’, or there’s a chance they even knew each other from before their departure to California.

The four men all were placed in cells near each other had had nothing but time to plot their famous escape. It required all the resources and brainpower they could muster to pull it off.