Letter suggests Alcatraz inmates survived infamous escape

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  • čas přidán 24. 01. 2018
  • The breakout of three inmates from Alcatraz in 1962 has been the subject of wild speculation for more than half a century. Now a handwritten letter is again raising questions about whether the men survived the frigid waters and deadly currents of San Francisco Bay. John Blackstone reports.
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Komentáře • 190

  • @TheMojaveCourier
    @TheMojaveCourier Před 6 lety +199

    So their family member just said they received roses with their initials and no ones talking about it???

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety +4

      Kyle Riles I'm sure they received lots of "stuff." Any writing should have included finger prints/palm prints. Why not? No reasons any longer to conceal authentic proof.

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety +1

      Kyle Riles no one is talking about it because a family member (local) probably sent them.

    • @ambs9223
      @ambs9223 Před 4 lety +5

      They don’t want to get caught. so it’s better to keep it a secret.

  • @marylou8480
    @marylou8480 Před 4 lety +126

    plot twist: their family members know their alive and see them often😂

    • @user-en6zb6kf7w
      @user-en6zb6kf7w Před 3 lety +5

      Imagine he pulls up once or twice to his old cell

    • @richardcoats6430
      @richardcoats6430 Před rokem

      Other plot twist, the powers that be know they're alive and see them often, the embarrassment came from the escape itself, suits all parties 🥃

  • @kevinlewis7882
    @kevinlewis7882 Před 6 lety +217

    To me they escaped once they hit the water

  • @mrkipple2080
    @mrkipple2080 Před rokem +44

    I gotta take my hat off to them if true,,. That was an incredible escape

  • @aft5264
    @aft5264 Před 5 lety +170

    I like to think they made it and lived long lives. They fooled everyone so they deserve it. What is the point in trying to track down an 80-90 year old who escaped over 50 years ago?

    • @josephlatino6750
      @josephlatino6750 Před 4 lety +30

      American Government is petty af

    • @cliffbutler4585
      @cliffbutler4585 Před 4 lety +11

      They want to find them if they did escape to make an example of then because it's pisses them off that they escaped

    • @Frozo-nt2ky
      @Frozo-nt2ky Před 3 lety +4

      @@josephlatino6750 they did rob banks

    • @slicedcheese5541
      @slicedcheese5541 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Frozo-nt2ky so what

    • @weaponizedglitter69
      @weaponizedglitter69 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Isn't prison to be rehabilitation and a better person? If so they lived another 50 years with nary any trouble. I hope they got away

  • @iceboxxer494
    @iceboxxer494 Před 5 lety +186

    I believe they escaped.
    A detail left out is during the funerals of their family members their was 2 oddly, overdressed, manly shaped “women” at the funeral.

    • @fukkincalderonz
      @fukkincalderonz Před 5 lety +14

      I heard about that in buzzfeed unsolved

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety +16

      Ice Boxxer I just don't see jail birds dressing up in women's clothing and putting on nylons over shaved legs and daintily walking on high-heel shoes. Plus, you know that the FBI was watching.

    • @freakyeb16
      @freakyeb16 Před 4 lety +2

      I agree with you

    • @historyimperfect4240
      @historyimperfect4240 Před rokem +8

      Frank morris Was a genius

    • @zacharyylol2585
      @zacharyylol2585 Před rokem +11

      Imagine if they were actually women 💀

  • @robertopistelli8765
    @robertopistelli8765 Před 5 lety +18

    They made it and police always known that, but was ashamed to confirm. Now all of them passed away, and the case is ceased. Let them free was better than arrest them and assume a escape from the most high security prison ever.

  • @TheRockstarFarmer
    @TheRockstarFarmer Před 4 lety +36

    I hope they made it for the sake of sticking it to the man.

  • @GuitarDudeBoii
    @GuitarDudeBoii Před 4 lety +25

    But if the family received signatures, can't they verify with an expert and compare it to old signatures to see if its really them?

  • @freddiearmstrong121
    @freddiearmstrong121 Před 5 lety +56

    Seems like Clint Eastwood tried this too...He must have made it because he is still doing films.

  • @arsenalf.c.6343
    @arsenalf.c.6343 Před 6 lety +98

    They want to forget it happened an embarrassment to them

  • @Jose-ph5xk
    @Jose-ph5xk Před 4 lety +11

    They could have gone to Brazil because there’s no extradition treaty with the US, therefore if they get arrested in Brazil they don’t get send back to the US.🇧🇷

  • @PacTel54321
    @PacTel54321 Před 5 měsíci +2

    My Grandmother, uncle and aunt lived on Hyde street, just up from the Buena Vista during this time and until ‘67. You could see Alcatraz out my uncle and Grandma’s windows. As a kid, (I was born in ‘59) we were there a lot, but was never aware of this story until the movie came out in the 70s. SF has some great history.

  • @elsiebranison7017
    @elsiebranison7017 Před 4 lety +9

    I thought that anyone that escaped Alcatraz and survived would be a free man

  • @thekingsplacegospeldjc4847
    @thekingsplacegospeldjc4847 Před 5 lety +14

    Just finished watching the MOVIE AGAIN for the UMPTEENTH TIME
    over the years...LOVE this movie..😉

  • @passionflower730
    @passionflower730 Před 4 lety +5

    There is a documentary about there family they did survive and lived in Brazil....

  • @xivwords5448
    @xivwords5448 Před 5 lety +55

    A teenage girl made the swim. Surely 3 young alphas could.

  • @flandin_
    @flandin_ Před 4 lety +11

    so glad this happened because its one of my favorite zombies maps

  • @lightningamer1204
    @lightningamer1204 Před 4 lety +8

    They should have announced what he said on TV! Then we would have gotten to know weather he really escaped or not. The government just wanted to keep their reputation that "no one escaped from Alcatraz." Come on hes old and dying from cancer anyways just give him 1 year and let him go

  • @darrelltowles4099
    @darrelltowles4099 Před 2 lety +5

    A free man can outlive a prison, as a prisoner under those horrible conditions you may not see 60

  • @tecatof6935
    @tecatof6935 Před 4 lety +11

    Of Course They Made It, With The Adrenaline To Escape & Be Free Plus Well Planned & To Top It Off, The Anglin Brothers Took A Picture Next To A Big "Rock" A Subliminal Reference To Their Accomplishment Escaping The Famous "Big Rock".. The Alcatraz Prison. History At Plain Sight.

  • @SR-bl8cw
    @SR-bl8cw Před rokem +4

    They should have offered to help him to see if he was dying from cancer and he was in fact, the person that escaped.

    • @Boudica234
      @Boudica234 Před 5 měsíci +1

      They didn't want to find out. It would have been humiliating for the govt to have to admit any of them made it.

  • @TURK_182
    @TURK_182 Před 6 lety +17

    Mythbusters made it

  • @vc23
    @vc23 Před 5 lety +2

    Whats the full name of the documentary

  • @johnbaugh2437
    @johnbaugh2437 Před 2 lety +6

    Who knows? They could have made it. It was easier to change your identity back then. It seems unlikely all three would have stayed out of crime and not been caught later for something else though.

  • @samaracuthbert3718
    @samaracuthbert3718 Před rokem +3

    They beat the system

  • @lailimohd6763
    @lailimohd6763 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Well done to the 3 great brothers.god bless u.

  • @AmericanPride1234
    @AmericanPride1234 Před 6 lety +52

    Wouldn’t it be funny if after writing the letter (assuming it was legitimate). That the guy created a Facebook account with his real name and current photo and the us marshal never bothered to look for him on Facebook? Lol
    5-15-18

    • @diner0_T
      @diner0_T Před 4 lety +1

      AmericanPride1234 Facebook boy it was 1963

    • @diner0_T
      @diner0_T Před 4 lety +1

      AmericanPride1234 ain’t no god damn Facebook

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Před 2 lety +1

      @@diner0_T the letter was written in 2013

  • @nnk2874
    @nnk2874 Před 8 měsíci +4

    There had to have been other boats on the island itself for guards and other work personnel, to travel to, and from the island, because they can’t leave those workers deserted without transport. With that being said, I think they staged their failed escape to throw guards off. This was likely a last minute change of plan.

  • @leicestergux
    @leicestergux Před 2 měsíci +1

    You can guarantee at least one of them would have done the tour of alcatraz years later to see the cell and stuff once it became a tourist attraction 😅

  • @gloriap3659
    @gloriap3659 Před 7 měsíci

    I just seen a deathbed confession on Vudu that they had help, a self typed letter from a nurse claiming she cared for the man who took their life.

  • @olawaleesan4672
    @olawaleesan4672 Před 3 lety +3

    All the evidence suggests to me that they made it. If they had drowned in the ocean then how comes their bodies have never been found?

  • @blackwidowspider9852
    @blackwidowspider9852 Před 9 měsíci +2

    They survived and had a long life And I know that 100%

  • @donny8489
    @donny8489 Před 4 lety +11

    Jack Morris was my father's real name, He stayed in the US the brothers made it to Brazil .My father is dead now but survived under a false name, with everyone thinking he was dead, no one was looking for him. An with help from the Mob he got a New SS number that he later found out belonged to a dead baby.., He changed his hair color, grew a thick beard and wore glasses. That's all it took to live without anyone ever questioning him...Dont believe me I dont care.I look just like that mugshot of him. Need more proof..He told me they made it to Angel island where a car was left for them, That escape was very well planed for months and months, it was an inside and outside job.....R.I.P Dad

    • @lunahateslgatos5776
      @lunahateslgatos5776 Před 3 lety +2

      I love how you Called him Jack Morris and clearly your name in your profile doesn’t say Morris

    • @lunahateslgatos5776
      @lunahateslgatos5776 Před 3 lety +1

      Lol nice tru

    • @Ryan-1999
      @Ryan-1999 Před 9 měsíci

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  • @alexkastano96
    @alexkastano96 Před 6 lety +22

    I believe that was one of them,coz if it would be a pranker he would send another one to newspaper or any other mass media a 100%

  • @1DolFAN
    @1DolFAN Před měsícem +1

    Anybody could have wrote that

  • @marcosrivera8692
    @marcosrivera8692 Před 6 lety +9

    Yes they made it for sure they were really smart well only god knows.

  • @acegibson9533
    @acegibson9533 Před rokem +5

    They didn't make it. There have been several attempts with world class athletes to escape from Alcatraz with the same equipment the three had. None of them even can close, the currents were waaaaay too strong and eventually the paddles broke and the rafts fell apart. So if well trained athletes couldn't make it, you really think those three (without wet suits) could pull it off? no way.

    • @mohanrora4380
      @mohanrora4380 Před rokem +1

      Absolutely right

    • @donnaedelen1199
      @donnaedelen1199 Před rokem +6

      I just watched 3 different documentaries on this story.. Well trained athletes HAVE made it off the island.. Also, the Anglin Brothers would swim in Lake Michigan, which is freezing, as younger men.. In one of these films, it is mentioned that if they had drowned, at least 2 of 3 bodies would have been found.. There is much more evidence that they DID survive than not

    • @kevinworrell1227
      @kevinworrell1227 Před rokem +10

      Well trained athletes don't have the same mind set as a locked up man trying to be free

    • @randallkohn6089
      @randallkohn6089 Před rokem +4

      I’m calling BS on the “well trained” athletes. Iron man types and triathletes do things ten times harder than that. If they tried it once and failed then I wouldn’t call it case closed based on one data point. Months of planning and knowing the currents and tides would help. The thought of being hung in the morning is a powerful motivator.

    • @mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38
      @mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38 Před 10 měsíci

      The Mythbusters did it.

  • @JuanRodriguez-rj5zn
    @JuanRodriguez-rj5zn Před 5 lety +5

    They made it

  • @derkaholic
    @derkaholic Před 3 lety

    Anyone know how to read that I can’t read it someone get back to me cause I really want to know what it says

  • @richardiverson7066
    @richardiverson7066 Před 4 lety +2

    Freedom from oppression....

  • @dawsoncurry126
    @dawsoncurry126 Před 7 měsíci +2

    The evidence as iv gathered over the years are that the fbi never stopped looking for them. They showed up at the funeral where two very tall manly woman were in attendance. The women talked to no one and left. The night of the esacape nearly an hour after the suspected time they escaped a car was stolen on the mainland by 3 men. This car just so happened to be near the shore closest to the island. The mother recieved roses for years with a letter signed by names she had never heard of and the letters supposedly had a signature mark on them to represent the men who escaped. The handwritten letter even though considered to be fake by the police was kept a secret and the physical document was kept in storage. They escaped. They lived. And john tried to exchange healthcare for the chance to reveal this but what he didnt consider was that the police were embarrassed by the escape and therefore never revealed himself. I think he watched his brother die and knew he was dying and he became desperate.

  • @jjlove13only1
    @jjlove13only1 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I truly believe they made it.

  • @dianac2498
    @dianac2498 Před 4 lety +3

    What about the other people who escaped Alcatraz whose bodies were never found. Why do these guys get so much attention but the others never do? Lucky for them I guess if they made it.

  • @jessecantu5130
    @jessecantu5130 Před 4 lety +3

    Back in those day's cops were out numbered ! Barely any security! They got away and im positive of it ! It was easy to drift back in those day's w out any attention

  • @emi6099
    @emi6099 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm happy they escaped and made it

  • @southbeachmiamiart895
    @southbeachmiamiart895 Před 5 lety +16

    I would turn myself in and get the medical treatment l need while giving their escape proof prison a middle finger.

    • @dmar5714
      @dmar5714 Před 5 lety +1

      South Beach Miami Art very true at 83 he won already what would it hurt to turn himself in now especially with having medical problems

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety +1

      South Beach Miami Art makes more sense (BTW, I'm up the coast at Hallandale Beach). If urgent care was needed, at that late stage and age, no "agreement" was needed--only medical care. The remaining life would not be spent outside the hospital--prison or otherwise.

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety +1

      South Beach Miami Art health care (here in the U.S.) trumps all other concerns. This is precisely the case with Ronnie Biggs (Great Train Robbery) then living also in Brazil. He returned to the U.K. for medical care.

  • @dulearizonaarizona5436
    @dulearizonaarizona5436 Před 6 lety +5

    YEAH I AM GLAD U GUYS ESCAPED ,DON'TCOME BACK FOOL

  • @georgezuniga6624
    @georgezuniga6624 Před 3 lety +1

    John anglin and his brother and frank Morris all three are living somewhere in mexico up in the mountains..

  • @Miles_Away
    @Miles_Away Před 4 lety +2

    Men who did so much to get out of that prison would not be stopped by the forces of Nature but instead would be welcomed by them

  • @siyaciaraamandaperez
    @siyaciaraamandaperez Před 6 lety +5

    Hii they are dead bc I search it this website so one of them had cancer ofc John n his brother is dead too 2-24-18

  • @lailimohd6763
    @lailimohd6763 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Yes3. They make it.

  • @jamesdavidson676
    @jamesdavidson676 Před 2 měsíci

    I really believe that they really made it at that time and the letter was real too.

  • @alivstyson1864
    @alivstyson1864 Před 5 měsíci

    no one with cancer at age 83 is volunteering to go back to prison BET THAT

  • @eugenehudson4260
    @eugenehudson4260 Před 3 lety

    people i met through life got caught some 3o years later some dead, some 50 years alive , they never exsisted from going out of hole ,comeone everyone if only you know about you you ain t gone

  • @bigdawg2310
    @bigdawg2310 Před rokem +2

    I love to see the bad guys win

  • @freakyeb16
    @freakyeb16 Před 4 lety +1

    I with those who believe they escaped the ages are 88 89 and 93

  • @richardzion1828
    @richardzion1828 Před 4 lety +2

    They made it! they ask thier Uncle and he said Pulled out!

  • @joehentalack2443
    @joehentalack2443 Před 4 lety +1

    Of course they made it to(freedom)shore,in those years,it was easy to "blend" in the crowd....

  • @littletoyboy1
    @littletoyboy1 Před 4 lety +1

    They all made it! The government know this! But they won't tell us this! We will know the government miss up!

  • @kurtvonfricken6829
    @kurtvonfricken6829 Před 4 lety +5

    The FBI wasn't certain they were swept out to sea. They had agents at the Englin’s mothers funeral.

  • @jaytoor5088
    @jaytoor5088 Před 5 lety +2

    Why didn't he leave some fingerprints in ink on the note if real? Would have sealed the deal.

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety

      Jay Toor absolutely, nothing authenticates like finger-palm prints. And, why not?

    • @boothe2803
      @boothe2803 Před 4 lety

      Jay Toor they didn’t have their fingerprints on file maybe? So it wouldn’t have done anything?

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety

      Jay Toor my thinking, exactly. No reason to hide his identity at this phase. Plus, we can imagine how many bogus claims the FBI received. A document hand written with palm and finger prints would seal the deal.

  • @_Kalfy
    @_Kalfy Před rokem

    They escaped but at what cost?

  • @lulacrayton5684
    @lulacrayton5684 Před 2 lety +1

    I believe they survived.

  • @karimdzh1218
    @karimdzh1218 Před rokem +1

    Lol they did survive obviously and who TH were the 2 “women” at the funeral no one knew they said they wore a bunch of make up and had the body of a guy I just think that frank Morris and anglin brothers split apart after the escape which is sad but...

    • @INDLIS
      @INDLIS Před měsícem

      It was believed to be the Anglin Brothers in disguise attending their mother’s funeral.

  • @t0mz206
    @t0mz206 Před 4 lety +3

    It's an illegal but I don't know why everyone seems to in favor with them (escapee) including me.

    • @boothe2803
      @boothe2803 Před 4 lety +1

      Just a cool thing to believe people escaped this prison

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety +1

      Mark Toms yes, we tend to root for someone taking on "The System."

    • @zamorakbrews7228
      @zamorakbrews7228 Před 4 lety +1

      Because its insane to think these people actually escaped the "inescapable prison"

    • @joseferrer6674
      @joseferrer6674 Před 4 lety +1

      Because the real criminals are out and about and are the people we elect into office

  • @Robert-eg2oy
    @Robert-eg2oy Před 9 měsíci

    They did not escape, the letter is b/s, anyone could of wrote that letter this s all b/s. These were three habitual criminals who if they did survive would of just committed more crimes and gotten caught, they always got caught.

  • @tularecountyoscarcopwatch7052

    They made it on a another boat then flied out of the country with a mafioso

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  • @GIGIYOUTUBE1927
    @GIGIYOUTUBE1927 Před 3 lety +1

    I proud of them they made it, farnak morries just robot

  • @seanculver9487
    @seanculver9487 Před 7 měsíci

    Not one of them ever got in trouble w the law again is hard for me to swallow, with nobody to help and no $$$ car or house it just seems tough that they led a straight life after and never got in trouble. That’s ware I start to believe they drowned

  • @learnteach2learn729
    @learnteach2learn729 Před 4 lety

    Could be a fake letter

  • @apersonontheinternet3538

    CAN they just very heavily fly on us if they are alive and say where they are

  • @genarovauez359
    @genarovauez359 Před 6 lety

    Amores perros

  • @joearmstrong3866
    @joearmstrong3866 Před 6 měsíci

    This is when touch DNA needs to show up plain simple.

  • @eddydiaz8923
    @eddydiaz8923 Před 4 lety

    Si se ahogaron o no si c escaparon eso siiii

  • @frosty2690
    @frosty2690 Před 3 lety

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  • @markfranco8259
    @markfranco8259 Před 2 lety

    Here in philippines 3x a day escape. Haha

  • @grinddaily2582
    @grinddaily2582 Před 6 lety

    Woke

  • @bigpoppa800
    @bigpoppa800 Před 5 lety +1

    no way they survived, they all drowned, no way they could survive the cold water

    • @erikallen3804
      @erikallen3804 Před 5 lety +2

      They made a raft idiot.

    • @ps6474
      @ps6474 Před 5 lety +7

      he chit, FYI....there is events where people swim in freezing cold icy waters for up to 21 miles without wetsuits, just bathing suits. And the Anglin brothers were expert swimmers. Plus two tv shows have proved the cold water swim, as well as using a raft( like the escapees) could be done.

    • @straightupoldies1991
      @straightupoldies1991 Před 4 lety +2

      They used the shark as a surfing board 😂🤣😂

    • @fk8118
      @fk8118 Před 4 lety

      PS well, not so fast. They end up on shore in only their bathing suit?

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  • @g4tinz706
    @g4tinz706 Před 4 lety

    They actually never made it sorry to spoil it but they did not make it FACT

    • @nuk3407
      @nuk3407 Před 4 lety +1

      I mean no one really knows. And tbh it seems like there are more evidence that they did make it.

    • @RebirthRavenIX
      @RebirthRavenIX Před rokem +3

      Dude they literally made it

    • @randallkohn6089
      @randallkohn6089 Před rokem

      You got anything to back that up?

  • @lailimohd6763
    @lailimohd6763 Před 2 měsíci

    U fbi shame on u all.fail to do yr work.

  • @kanetuirirangi1398
    @kanetuirirangi1398 Před 9 měsíci

    That’s the government for ya never doing anything for anyone else other than themselves

  • @kirstenrabung5350
    @kirstenrabung5350 Před 3 lety +1

    They made it