The Inmates Who Planned the 1962 Breakout from Alcatraz.

The End of the Western World

It was a difficult choice, considering the four had worked together for months, but one that had to be made. Too much time would be wasted, too much noise would be made, and too much risk would be increased if the hole were widened and guards came to check on the cells. Allen West went back to his bunk in a state of humiliation and feigned to sleep. He did so, and the other three men followed suit, grabbing onto the pipes and climbing the thirty or so feet to the roof.

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