Escape
Who were the 3 escapes
Who is Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin
Where Is Alcatraz located
San Francisco Bay
Inmates spent months secretly digging through walls using this everyday metal utensil smuggled from the dining hall.
A spoon.
Inmates were allowed to play these in their cells for an hour a day to pass the time; Al Capone famously played the banjo
Musical instruments
True or False: No inmate ever officially successfully escaped and was proven to have survived.
True (they are officially missing and presumed drowned).
These realistic items made of soap, toilet paper, and real hair were placed in the inmates' beds to fool night guards.
What are dummy heads?
Long before it was a prison, a Spanish explorer named the island after these large, scooper-beaked sea birds.
Pelicans (from "La Isla de los Alcatraces")
This heavy material makes up the prison walls, which became easier to chip away at over time due to the salty sea air
Concrete
Unlike most prisons, Alcatraz provided this luxury in the showers so inmates wouldn't get used to freezing water, making an escape swim harder
Hot water
This is the approximate distance, in miles, that an escaping inmate would have to swim to reach the San Francisco shoreline.
1.5 miles.
When did they escape
What is June 11, 1962
This branch of the U.S. military originally used the island as a military fortification and prison before it became a federal penitentiary.
What is the U.S. Army?
Why did Frank take up being a barber?
To gain access to hair and materials used to craft the realistic dummy heads left in their beds.
This was the large room where inmates gathered to eat meals under the watchful eyes of guards and tear gas canisters on the ceiling
The Mess Hall (or Dining Hall)
Not just prisoners lived on the island; these workers and their entire families, including children, lived there in separate housing.
The prison guards / correctional officers.
The escapees used more than 50 of these items, stolen from fellow inmates, to construct their inflatable raft and life vests.
What are raincoats?
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy officially closed the prison in 1963 due to high operating costs and this specific structural issue.
What is severe deterioration (or salt-water erosion)?
This famous prisoner and author spent time in Alcatraz, but didn't write his famous book on diseases of canaries until he was in the prison's specialized isolation cell".
Who is Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz)?
If prisoners followed all the rules, they were rewarded with this weekend privilege to see family members through a glass window.
Visitation rights.
Before it became a prison, the island featured the very first one of these bright, blinking towers on the U.S. West Coast to guide ships.
A lighthouse.
To drill through the concrete walls quietly, the inmates built a makeshift drill powered by the motor of this broken household appliance
A vacuum cleaner
Known as 'The Rock,' this former federal prison located in San Francisco Bay housed famous criminals like Al Capone
"What is Alcatraz?"
While the exterior was meant to keep inmates in, this specific component made of "gunite" was added to the prison's utility corridors to reinforce the structural integrity of the cellhouse, a 0.5.2 material often used to coat steel.
What is Concrete?
During the early years of the prison, Alcatraz enforced a strict rule of this, meaning prisoners could be punished just for whispering to each other
Total silence
Because the island had no natural source of this essential resource, millions of gallons of it had to be boated to the island every week.
Fresh water (or drinking water).