He was imprisoned for car theft in 1955, first at Atlanta Penitentiary, then at Florida State Prison.
West was arrested over 20 times throughout his lifetime. Allen West Īllen West (Ma– December 21, 1978) was born in New York City. John arrived on October 24, 1960, as inmate AZ1476, and Clarence on January 16, 1961, as inmate AZ1485. After repeated attempts to escape from the Atlanta facility, John and Clarence were transferred to Alcatraz. All received 35-year sentences, which they served at Florida State Prison, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, and then Atlanta Penitentiary. On January 17, 1958, brothers John, Clarence, and Alfred Anglin robbed the Bank of Columbia in Columbia, Alabama. They claimed that they used a weapon only once, during a bank heist – a toy gun. The brothers began robbing banks and other establishments as a team in the early 1950s, usually targeting businesses that were closed, to ensure that no one got injured. Ĭlarence was first caught breaking into a service station when he was 14 years old. Clarence and John were reportedly inseparable as youngsters they became skilled swimmers, and amazed their siblings by swimming in the frigid waters of Lake Michigan as ice still floated on its surface. Each June they migrated north as far as Michigan to pick cherries. Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers in the early 1940s, they moved the family to Ruskin, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Tampa, where the truck farms and tomato fields provided a more reliable source of income. John William (born May 2, 1930) and Clarence (born May 11, 1931) were born into a family of 14 children in Donalsonville, Georgia. New circumstantial and material evidence has continued to surface, stoking new debates on whether the inmates managed to survive. Marshals Service case file remains open and active, however, and Morris and the Anglin brothers remain on its wanted list.
In 1979 the FBI officially concluded, on the basis of circumstantial evidence and a preponderance of expert opinion, that the men drowned in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay without reaching the mainland. Numerous theories of widely varying plausibility have been proposed by authorities, reporters, family members, and amateur enthusiasts. Hundreds of leads were pursued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local law enforcement officials in the ensuing years, but no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced favoring the success or failure of the attempt. A fourth conspirator, Allen West, failed in his escape attempt and remained on the island. Late on the night of June 11 or early morning of June 12, the three men tucked papier-mâché heads resembling their own likenesses into their beds, broke out of the main prison building via ventilation ducts and an unused utility corridor, and departed the island aboard an improvised inflatable raft to an uncertain fate. In June 1962, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz, with Angel Island (the fugitives' intended destination) in background, San Francisco Bay, March 1962Īlcatraz Island, San Francisco, California, U.S.
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