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[dramatic music] - NARRATOR: At approximately 9:30 PM on June 11th, 1962, just after the guards called for lights out... [suspenseful music] ...15 months of meticulous preparation was finally put to the test. The three cons inched out of the backs of their cells through tiny holes that they had spent
months cutting and concealing... ...made their way up the ventilator shaft, and out onto the roof of the cellblock. What they did next turned them into legends. - NARRATOR: Coming up, after 50 years of living in obscurity, alone, long forgotten eyewitness account comes back to life. - I happened to, uh, see a boat
months cutting and concealing... ...made their way up the ventilator shaft, and out onto the roof of the cellblock. What they did next turned them into legends. - NARRATOR: Coming up, after 50 years of living in obscurity, alone, long forgotten eyewitness account comes back to life. - I happened to, uh, see a boat
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[dramatic music]
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- NARRATOR: At approximately
9:30 PM on June 11th, 1962,
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just after the guards called
for lights out...
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[suspenseful music]
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...15 months of meticulous
preparation was finally
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put to the test.
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The three cons inched out of the
backs of their cells through
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tiny holes that they had spent
months cutting and concealing...
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...made their way up the
ventilator shaft, and out onto
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the roof of the cellblock.
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What they did next turned
them into legends.
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- NARRATOR: Coming up, after 50
years of living in obscurity,
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alone, long forgotten
eyewitness account
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comes back to life.
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- I happened to, uh, see a boat.
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Movie Summary
The greatest prison break in history became America's most notorious cold case. The escape from Alcatraz in 1962 forced the government into a merciless manhunt. Still, the three inmates were never found.