(CNN) — Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats. On June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence ...

US President Donald Trump declared "nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz," outlining plans to reopen the island prison. It was shut down more than six decades ago. As far as Trump's claims are concerned, ...

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

and Mearl Anglin Taylor, visit Alcatraz in 2012 on the 50th anniversary of their brothers’ escape. The assumption that Morris and the Anglin brothers could not have possibly survived the tricky ...