Alcatraz is known first and foremost as a prison. Hollywood has helped drag out this narrative with flicks about what might have been the only successful escape, and a hostage situation with ...

Fifty years after three prisoners broke out of Alcatraz through a spoon-dug tunnel and launched a raft made of raincoats into the San Francisco Bay in a bid for freedom, a lone U.S. marshal is ...

Pictured here in the 1970s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the island it stands on can be seen from above. The infamous prison closed on March 21, 1963, after 29 years of operation.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- New revelations challenge the legend that nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz and survived. Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin vanished from their cells at the ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates, Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin, set out in a raft made of raincoats into the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay. They were ...

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist the deteriorating facility should be reopened.

The real life escape from Alcatraz took place on June 11, 1962 and the film Escape From Alcatraz was released on June 22, 1979, just a little over 15 years after the fact.