- I recently acquired a couple of glass negatives showing the aftermath of a prison break in December, 1935.
- In researching them, I found that five prisoners tried to escape from Charlestown State Prison (Massachusetts) by hijacking a truck as it was making deliveries and ramming it through the prison gates.
- During the breakout, the inmates attacked a truck driver and an inmate who tried to protect the driver. The truck driver was killed in the incident.
- All the escaping inmates were eventually captured.
- Charlestown State Prison, a maximum-security prison that housed notable figures like Malcolm X and Charles Ponzi, operated from 1805 until its closure in 1955. The site is now occupied by Bunker Hill Community College.
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