# John Anglin's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1476 (National Archives catalog entry)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695645-john-anglin-alcatraz-case-file/

Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1476, with 465 digitized pages. The description gives receipt on 24 October 1960 and an end date of 11 June 1962, the date of the escape; the catalog remark reads presumed dead.

The catalog title is "ANGLIN, JOHN WILLIAM - Alcatraz Number 1476." 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 465 digitized pages. The pages have not been read for this archive.

The catalog description gives these fields: offense "BANK ROBBERY"; received at Alcatraz 10/24/1960; transferred 06/11/1962 to "DEATH"; remark "PRESUMED DEAD." Those are the catalog's entries, not readings of the file.

As with his brother's file, the death date in the catalog is NARA's, not a finding; the Bureau of Prisons says the three men who disappeared from their cells on 11 June 1962 "are officially listed as missing and presumed drowned" ([BOP Alcatraz history](/items/bop-alcatraz-history/)). The brother's file is [NAID 117695644](/items/nara-117695644-clarence-anglin-alcatraz-case-file/).

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117695645
- National Archives series: Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz (NAID 622809): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/622809