Alcatraz Escape – Soldier of Fortune Magazine
Alcatraz Escape In its heyday, it was the ultimate maximum security prison. FBI Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz—aka “The Rock”—had held captives since the Civil War. But it was in 1934, the highpoint of a major war on crime, that Alcatraz was re-fortified into the world’s most secure prison. Its eventual inmates included dangerous public enemies like Al Capone, criminals who had a history of escapes, and the occasional odd character like the infamous “Birdman of Alcatraz.” In the 1930s, Alcatraz was already a forbidding place, surrounded ...
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