Tag: Clarence Anglin

• July 2, 1962 – Crash-out on Condemned Row (Almost).

  

  July 2, 1962 was supposed to be a quiet day on San Quentin’s Condemned Row. Securely lodged on the top floor of North Block, California’s condemned were expecting a summer’s day as bleak, depressing and dull as any other. So were the Condemned Row officers whose job it was to keep them under control. With…

  CrimeScribe

  March 28, 2023

  History, True Crime

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