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Dec 2019
11m 37s

#3: The Most Amazing Prison Escapes in H...

Leonardo English
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Today we're going to be taking a look at 5 of the most amazing prison escapes in history. 

We'll travel to South Korea, Mexico, Germany, and the US, and discover some of the ingenious ways in which prisoners evaded their guards.

  • Escape 1: John Herbert Dillinger and the wooden pistol
  • Escape 2: Choi Gap Bok, the South Korean yoga expert
  • Escape 3: The Alcatraz escape - but did it really happen?
  • Escape 4: The Great Escape - how 600 men managed to keep an escape plan hidden from their guards
  • Escape 5 (and 6): El Chapo, $2.5 million, laundry baskets, tunnels, and motorbikes


Key vocab: Protagonists, Ingenious, Dummies, Without further ado, Ringing a bell, Notorious, Carved, Lured, Shootout, Brute, Wriggle, Perished, Cult, Shark-infested, Tides, Feat, Raft, Intriguing, Immortalized, Squadron, Sheer, Barbed wire, Implicated, Evade, Extradited, Bribe

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Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/the-most-amazing-prison-escapes-in-history


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