Herman Barker (Death of), FBI file 26-9961, Part 01 (Final) (FBI Vault)
The FBI Vault's file titled "Herman Barker (Death of)," file 26-9961, section 1, serials 1 to 120: Bureau correspondence of 1926 and 1927, much of it from the Oklahoma City office. A copy of the cover sheet is stored here.
- Date
- 1926/1927
- Kind
- case-file
- Source
- FBI Records: The Vault
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA in the FBI Vault. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The stored image is a grayscale render of the Vault viewer's page scan.
The cover sheet, stored here, reads: “Subject Herman Barker (Death of); File Number 26-9961; Section Number 1; Serials 1-120; Total Pages 192; Pages Released 190; Pages Withheld 2,” with the FOIA exemptions used, and notes that the file “was reproduced from microfilm which may affect the clarity.” The Vault viewer shows 193 pages of Bureau correspondence and identification-record requests from 1926 and 1927, much of it from the Oklahoma City office. The viewer’s text layer is poor, and no letter in the part is quoted here.
The Bureau’s 1936 Bremer summary states that Herman Barker, cornered by police at Wichita on August 29, 1927 after an officer was killed, “committed suicide rather than submit to arrest.” Arthur Barker’s Alcatraz notebook page uses the same words. This file was not read closely enough to say what it adds.
