“My name is John Anglin. I escape from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris,” the letter begins. “I’m 83 years old and in bad shape. I have cancer.” Adds the ...

John and Clarence Anglin were transferred separately to Alcatraz, where they began plotting their escape with fellow ... cell enough on the night of June 11, 1962, as his co-conspirators ...

The men, who would now be in their 90s, broke out of the now-closed island prison in San Francisco Bay on June 11, 1962. They were in prison for committing bank robberies. “The ongoing U.S. Marshals ...