COLUMBIA – The site of a robbery connected to the 1979 film “Escape from Alcatraz” will soon open as a museum dedicated to preserving this town’s rich history.
A grand opening and ribbon cutting for Columbia Historical Museum will be held Thursday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. at the former Bank of Columbia building at 105 S. Main St.
John, Clarence, and Alfred Anglin were born into a family of 13 children in Depression-era Donalsonville, Georgia. Their parents were seasonal farmworkers who moved to Ruskin, Florida, about 20 miles south of Tampa, in the early 1940s. They were given 15-20 year sentences and sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary, where they first met inmates Frank Lee Morris and Allen West.
The movie “Escape from Alcatraz” is an adaptation of a 1963 nonfiction book by J. Campbell Bruce that dramatizes the June 1962 escape from the prison. In the movie, Clint Eastwood portrays Morris with Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau playing the roles of John and Clarence Anglin. The town known to many as “Old Columbia” served as the county seat of Henry County from 1826 to 1833 and was a major port-of-call for steamboats. The town was incorporated in 1880 and was a center of commerce and trade. It was the largest town in the area during the 19th century and remains one of the area’s oldest operating municipalities.
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