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December 16, 1962[edit] John Paul Scott and Darl Lee Parker were the last two prisoners to attempt to escape from Alcatraz. Scott and Parker used a makeshift saw to cut through the bars on a kitchen window in the cell house, then ran to the edge of the island and jumped into the water.
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.