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Inside Alcatraz
- My Time on the Rock
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz.
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- Dicko
- 06-11-2019
Love the Subject Matter
A very good read and very well written and Narrated. I would've loved to have had this guy for dinner So many stories and so many experiences. Inspirational and highly interesting story.
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