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Article milestones Date Process Result September 15, 2012 Good article nominee Listed
	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 13, 2012. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that before the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began operations in 1934 there was a citadel on Alcatraz Island?
	Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on March 21, 2013, March 21, 2017, and October 12, 2023.

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I haven't found any source that describes the Cole/Roe escape as damaging Alcatraz's reputation. Calling this into question

Ahh. My apologies, I thought you were raising a different point. Yes, there seems to have been very little doubt that was not a successful getaway. Qwirkle (talk) 13:57, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]