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The Utility Corridor

History Channel

As the holes in their cells widened, they could see the unguarded utility corridor on the other side. There were bars along the walls that the men could use to climb up three stories, to the wide shafts, and then onto the roof.

On that fateful evening in 1962, the men pried one of the shafts open with their homemade wrench, got onto the roof, and disappeared into the night. But they had left one man behind.

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