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What happened to the three men who escaped from Alcatraz? In June 1962, brothers Clarence and John Anglin and Frank Morris attempted to escape from the inescapable water-bound prison, Alcatraz, located on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay on the coast of California.
In 1962 MGM released the movie The Birdman of Alcatraz. Starring Burt Lancaster, it depicted the story of how two-time murderer Robert Stroud, originally incarcerated at Leavenworth and then transferred to Alcatraz, began to pass the time by studying the diseases of the sparrows and canaries that he kept as pets.