# Clarence Anglin's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1485 (National Archives catalog entry)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695644-clarence-anglin-alcatraz-case-file/

Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1485, with 525 digitized pages. The description gives receipt on 16 January 1961 and an end date of 11 June 1962, the date of the escape; the catalog remark reads presumed dead.

The catalog title is "ANGLIN, (ALFRED) CLARENCE - Alcatraz Number 1485." The file unit belongs to the series Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons at the National Archives at San Francisco. The catalog lists 525 digitized pages (JPG and PDF renditions). The pages have not been read for this archive.

The catalog description gives these fields: offense "BANK ROBBERY & ATTEMPTED ESCAPE (LEAVENWORTH)"; received at Alcatraz 01/16/1961; transferred 06/11/1962 to "DEATH"; remark "PRESUMED DEAD." Those are the catalog's entries, not readings of the file.

The death date in the catalog is NARA's, not a finding. The Bureau of Prisons states that on 11 June 1962 Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin "vanished from their cells" and that they "are officially listed as missing and presumed drowned" ([BOP Alcatraz history](/items/bop-alcatraz-history/)). The FBI's [first memorandum](/items/fbi-vault-alcatraz-escape-p02-morris-anglin-memo-1962/) after the escape is in the Vault. The brother's file is [NAID 117695645](/items/nara-117695645-john-anglin-alcatraz-case-file/).

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117695644
- National Archives series: Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz (NAID 622809): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/622809