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Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin and Their Escape From Alcatraz. Volume Seven, Episode Five. (Part One)

The true story Of Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin and their remarkable escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

Alcatraz Island
Frank Morris
John Anglin
Clarence Anglin
Allen West
Ralph Roe
Theodore Cole
Doc Barker

Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin and Their Escape From Alcatraz. Volume Seven, Episode Five (Part Two)

The true story Of Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin and their remarkable escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

Alcatraz with Angel Island in the background.
Utility corridor behind the escapees’ cells.
The four dummy heads used during the escape.
Escapee cell with fake grill removed.
John Paul Scott
Fort Point, Golden Gate, near where John Paul Scott washed ashore
Alcatraz, with Little Alcatraz visible, lower left
Alcatraz Lighthouse at night.

Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin and Their Escape From Alcatraz. Volume Seven, Episode Five (Book and Music Information)

The books used to develop this podcast included:

“Escaping Alcatraz,” by Michael Esslinger, and

“Breaking the Rock,” by Jolene Babyak.

The music used in this podcast included:

For both episode intros: “Put It,” by Track Tribe, and

Part One outro: “Smoke,” by Lish Grooves, as well as,

“The Black Cat,” by Aaron Kenny

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Volume Seven, Episode Two. (Part One)

In 1969, the 20th Century Fox film, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” established these two outlaws as popular culture icons. But what was the truth about the lives, crimes and deaths of these two American legends?

Butch Cassidy’s boyhood home, Circleville, Utah
Butch Cassidy, Wyomng prison mug shot
Telluride location of Butch Cassidy’s first bank robbery, bank building is actually the white building to the right.
Montpelier, Idaho site of Butch Cassidy bank holdup
Sundance and Etta Place, taken shortly before they left for Argentina

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Volume Seven, Episode Two. (Part Two)

In 1969, the 20th Century Fox film, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” established these two outlaws as popular culture icons. But what was the truth about the lives, crimes and deaths of these two American legends?

Butch and Sundance’s Argentine cabin today
Posse containing Joe Lefors, third from left
The house used in the Butch Cassidy film that Katharine Ross/Etta Place lived in. The front yard is the site of Paul Newman’s bike ride during, “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.”
Red Rock plateau of the Hole In The Wall hideout near Kaycee, Wyoming
The location near Durango, Colorado where Paul Newman and Robert Redford jump off of a tall cliff into this river.
Historical marker denoting the site of Hell’s Half Acre in Fort Worth

Isabella Stewart Gardner and the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Robbery. Volume Six, Episode Twelve (Part One)

On March 18, 1990, two thieves stole over a half billion dollars worth of artwork from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Art Museum. Today this remains the world’s largest unsolved art robbery.

Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888
John Lowell (Jack) Gardner, Jr.
Bernard Berenson in his Italian Villa
Botticelli, The tragedy of Lucretia
Rembrandt, Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Rembrandt, self portrait, damaged but not stolen
Titian, Rape of Europa
Jan Vermeer, The Concert
Manet, Chez Tortoni
Rembrandt, A Man and a Woman in Black
Flinck, Landscape with Obelisk
John Singer Sargent, Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888

Gardner Museum, Central Courtyard

Isabella Stewart Gardner and the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Robbery. Volume Six, Episode Twelve (Part Two)

On March 18, 1990, two thieves stole over a half billion dollars worth of artwork from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Today this remain’s the world largest unsolved art robbery.

Gardner Museum security guard Rick Abath
Myles Connor, later in life
William Youngworth III, late 90’s
Robert “Bobby” Donati, early in his criminal career
Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1907
Gardner Museum, 1920
Robert Gentile
Gentile attorney Ryan McGuigan
One of the three FBI searches of Gentile’s Connecticut property
Recent photo of the original Gardner building
Gardner Museum addition completed in 2012
John Singer Sargent, 1922 portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Gardner family mausoleum, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

Charles Lindbergh (Volume Six, Episode Ten) Part One

The triumph, tragedy and bizarre secrets of one of the 20th century’s most prominent figures.

Lindbergh with his father CA Lindbergh
Lindbergh as an Air Army Cadet
Anne Morrow as a teenager
Lindbergh with The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis at the Smithsonian Institute
Lindbergh at Croydon, 1927
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lindbergh estate, Highfields, now a youth rehabilitation center, Hopewell, NJ
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Lindbergh baby, cover of time Magazine
Wanted poster
With Goering in Germany, 1936

Charles Lindbergh (Volume Six, Episode Ten) Part Two

The triumph, tragedy and bizarre secrets of one of the 20th century’s most prominent figures.

Bruno Richard Hauptman
John Condon on the witness stand
Lindbergh on the witness stand
Gasoline can which contained Lindbergh ransom money found in Hauptmann’s garage
Norman Schwarzkopf, NJ State Police, and father of future Desert Storm commander
Lindbergh in the Pacific, WW II
Anne and Charles Lindbergh with JFK, a politician that Lindbergh admired
Lindbergh, later in life, in the Philippines
Lindbergh grave, Kipahalu, Maui, Hawaii

Charles Lindbergh (Volume Six, Episode Ten) Book and Music Information

The books used to compose this podcast included:

“Loss of Eden,” by Joyce Milton

“The Flight,” by Dan Hampton

“Forward From Here,” by Reeve Lindbergh

The intro music in part one and outro music in part two is: “Helium,” by Track Tribe.

The outro music in part one and intro music in part two is: “No Indication,” by Track Tribe.