Alcatraz 2006

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In August of 2006 we were treated to a special tour of Alcatraz.  Mary Hernan's father John was once a guard at there.  (Mary is my CEO's admin).  We heard what it was really like to work and live at the worlds most famous prison.   We even met some ex convicts.  One of them, Darwin E. Coon told us how he and his partner used to rob banks (pretty easy to do in the old days).  He was caught many times and broke out of every prison the put him in.  That's why he ended up at Alcatraz.  He claims he helped the infamous escapees,Frank Lee Morris and two brothers, Clarence and John Anglin, build their rafts in 1962 but never attempted to escape himself.  It was a great day.