"The longer you are away from a place the softer the memories become," said John Banner ... Some 36 inmates did attempt escape over the 29 years between 1934 and 1969 that Alcatraz was a prison ...

John Anglin, along with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris, was one of three inmates who escaped Alcatraz grounds in 1962. The three convicts built papier-mache dummy heads and placed them in ...