Attempted Escape at Bexar County Jail (1977) - Paul Schaefer Collection

Duration: 0:05:16

Year Published: 1977

Sound: sound

Description: In these 1977 news outtakes for San Antonio’s KMOL-TV (now WOAI-TV), Paul Schaefer reports on an attempted jail break at Bexar County Jail. Schaefer interviews jail personnel about the incident. Close-up shots show how the inmates attempted to saw through metal bars and crawl through holes to escape. The footage also provides a sense of the general conditions at Bexar County Jail in the 1970s and references previous escape attempts.