Long before the advent of internet sleuths and true crime specials, the country would be transfixed with their audacious bid for freedom-and whether they had really made it out alive. In just under two years’ time, the Anglins and an accomplice named Frank Morris would put that reputation to the test. So in 1960, prison officials who were wary of their determination to regain freedom decided to send the brothers to the one place in the country that had proven to be completely escape-proof: Alcatraz, a fortified island in San Francisco. Both had also tried to run from chain gangs. The Anglins were caught and arrested just five days later in Ohio, and all three went to prison.Įventually, John and Clarence ended up at Leavenworth, a penitentiary in Kansas, where Clarence attempted to make a break for it by trying to smuggle himself out in two enormous bread boxes John likely assisted him.
Not that they had time to do much with the money. For the Anglin brothers, three of 14 children who grew up in poverty-stricken areas of Georgia and Florida, it was a life-changing amount of cash. The men wielded a plastic firearm to scare employees and exited with over $18,000, the equivalent of $174,000 today.
On January 17, 1958, the Anglins, along with their older brother Alfred, stormed into Alabama's Bank of Columbia. For brothers John and Clarence Anglin, the story of the most infamous prison escape in modern history began with a toy gun.
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