Previous Attempts
There were 14 separate total escape attempts by 36 different Alcatraz inmates. Most of the escapees involved were shot by guards or recaptured. The only known successful swim off the island was by John Paul Scott in December, 1962, but he was recaptured on the San Francisco side, at Fort Point, almost immediately.
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Is that we are a little early, that
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Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
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