John “Paul” Scott of Leitchfield, KY, was serving 30 years for bank robbery (really burglary) for attempting to rob the Farmers and Traders Bank in Campton, KY, and for stealing two Thompson submachine guns from a Danville, KY, National Guard Armory, which were used in a shootout with police after a night watchman caught him and his two accomplices in the act. An attempted escape from the Atlanta penitentiary got him a seat on the ferry to the Rock. What happened next made history.
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