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Only one man ever succeeded in swimming all the way to shore on Alcatraz: in 1962, John Paul Scott washed up on the rocks at Fort Point. He was so tired from the swim through the frigid waters of the Golden Gate that the boys who found him thought he was an unsuccessful suicide attempt from the overhanging Golden Gate Bridge and called for help. Police apprehended the exhausted swimmer within minutes of his landfall.

John Giles made it farther off the Rock and in better condition than any man. In 1945, he collected a complete Technical Sargeant's uniform, put it on, and got aboard an Army boat which he thought was going to take him to the Presidio, on the San Francisco mainland. The boat headed for Fort McDowell on Angel Island, instead. The Army also counted the people on the boat. When they discovered they had an extra man, they radioed back to Alcatraz. The Bureau of Prisons sent a speedboat which made it to Angel Island before the Army boat. As Giles came down the gangplank, he saw Captain Phillip Bergen waiting to take him back home.

One man who successfully escaped Alcatraz custody for a time was the counterfeiter John Standig. On the way back from a trial in 1935, Standig jumped off a railroad train and into a stream near Richmond, California. He eluded recapture for ten days. Standig later went crazy in the Alcatraz dungeons and was sent to Springfield, Missouri.

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#1. Joseph Bowers

#2. Ralph Roe & Theodore Cole

#3. Thomas Limerick, Rufus ''Whitey'' Franklin, James Lucas

#4. Arthur Barker, Dale Stamphill, Henri Young, William ''Ty'' Martin, Rufus McCain

#5. Joseph Cretzer, Sam Shockley, Arnold Kyle, Lloyd Barkdoll

#6. John Bayless

#7. James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest, Floyd Hamilton

#8. Huron Ted Walters

#9. John Giles

#10. Bernard Coy, Joseph Cretzer, Marvin Hubbard, Miran Thompson, Clarence Carnes, Sam Shockley

#11. Floyd Wilson

#12. Aaron Burgett, Clyde Johnson

#13. Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin, Clarence Anglin

#14. Darl Parker, John Paul Scott

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Frank Morris, and his brothers John, and Clarence Anglin

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