1960s Timeline

Sept. 15, 1962 - Opening today is “Convicts Four,” prison film drama starring Ben Gazzara. The film is a fictionalized version of the...

June 17, 1962 - The finding of a plastic bag containing personal effects has strengthened the belief that three convicts who fled...

June 13, 1962 - Three convicts who dug escape hatches with spoons through cell walls on Alcatraz Island were aided by the erosion and...

June 12, 1962 - The search for three escaped Alcatraz convicts — Frank L. Morris (left) and brothers John (right) and Clarence Anglin...

🚨June 12, 1962 - Three Alcatraz convicts used spoons to dig and cut their way out of the island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay early...