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Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence

...15 months of meticulous preparation was finally put to the test. The three cons inched...

[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

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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.
Duration
53 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:25
Uploaded
Jun 26, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Texas Crew Productions

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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.
- NARRATOR: And then, the letter the world has been - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:11
- NARRATOR: And then, the letter the world has been
- NARRATOR: David and Ken Widner are the nephews of two men - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:26
- NARRATOR: David and Ken Widner are the nephews of two men
I was just a small kid, a baby actually. - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:06
I was just a small kid, a baby actually.
And she said she heard it on the news, - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:09
And she said she heard it on the news,
She said she knew right then who it was. - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:04
She said she knew right then who it was.
- RADIO ANNOUNCER: It appears to be the first successful escape - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:06
- RADIO ANNOUNCER: It appears to be the first successful esc...
- KEN: And from that moment on, everything changed. - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:04
- KEN: And from that moment on, everything changed.
I mean, it was in our blood from the very beginning. - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:04
I mean, it was in our blood from the very beginning.
- DAVID: As kids, we would hear our parents, you know, - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:05
- DAVID: As kids, we would hear our parents, you know,
And a lot of times when the kids would come around - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:11
And a lot of times when the kids would come around
It made you want to look past what some of the stories were - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:38
It made you want to look past what some of the stories were
One by one, they come down what is a large smokestack, - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:08
One by one, they come down what is a large smokestack,
So there's soot all over it, it's real dirty. - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:04
So there's soot all over it, it's real dirty.
You can actually see, in a lot of the FBI photographs, - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:08
You can actually see, in a lot of the FBI photographs,
They make their way out onto the officer's catwalk - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:05
They make their way out onto the officer's catwalk
Go down into the vegetation here, - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:07
Go down into the vegetation here,
It's amazing that right over here, this is what some of the - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:05
It's amazing that right over here, this is what some of...
- ART: So the Bureau found footprints, evidence, - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:05
- ART: So the Bureau found footprints, evidence,
- ART: Your adrenaline would be pumping at this point - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:05
- ART: Your adrenaline would be pumping at this point
- ESSLINGER: I mean, when you think about it, all the planning - Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence 00:15
- ESSLINGER: I mean, when you think about it, all the planni...