PBS: The Alcatraz Escape
Writer/Director
Steve Hoggard
Producer
Daphna Rubin
Director of Photography
Nick Midwig
Executive Producers and Creators
Daphna Rubin, Stephen Segal, Steven Hoggard
Network
PBS
A forensic investigation into the 1962 disappearance of three Alcatraz inmates using modern scientific modeling to recreate the actual escape on San Francisco Bay.
On June 11, 1962, bank robbers Frank Morris and Clarence & John Anglin launched a patchwork, raincoat raft into the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay surrounding Alcatraz Prison. The men disappeared, leaving behind one of history's most enduring mysteries. An exhaustive search failed to find the three – dead or alive. Some say the men surely drowned in the bay's lethal currents. Others, spurred on by sightings & stories of unsigned birthday cards sent to Mrs. Anglin years after her sons' disappearance, believe the three survived and may still be living secret lives today. Now, for the first time, a team of Dutch scientists has employed innovative 3-D technology to prove it's possible that the three inmates survived their daring escape. The scientists, Olivier Hoes, Rolf Hut and Fedor Baart revealed that the Anglin brothers & Frank Morris could be alive today. Using the most current scientific advancements, yet keeping the raft and recreation as realistic to the 1962 escape as possible, the Dutch scientists try to sort fact from fiction and put history to the test.
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