AAC-9557

Clyde M. Johnson, one of two convicts at Alcatraz Prison who made an escape attempt on September 29, 1958

1949

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

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Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison Breaks-September, 1958.
On front: "NXP902169 (ST)-9/29/58-SAN FRANCISCO: Clyde M. Johnson, a bank robber, was one of two prisoners who escaped from the U. S. Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island 9/29, the warden's office announced. Johnson is shown here in a 1949 file photo made after his capture. Johnson and Aaron Burgett, a post office robber, bound and gagged a guard at knife point. Johnson was later recaptured among the rocks of the island. UPI TELE/files =rda=".
Negative #3198.

brn: .b10244086

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