# Miran Edgar Thompson

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/miran-thompson/

Alcatraz register no. 729-AZ. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 15 October 1945 under a life sentence for kidnapping and violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, a 1946 federal murder trial in San Francisco, and execution at San Quentin on 3 December 1948.

The catalog gives a birth date of 12/16/1917, matching the page. The Bureau of Prisons names Thompson among the six prisoners in the "Battle of Alcatraz" of May 2-4, 1946. The role and family fields are left empty because no record cited here states either. Offenses are given as the notebook form prints them; the "Reason for Transfer" boxes are staff opinion and are not used.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: Alcatraz warden's notebook page, register no. 729: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236736293
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Miran Edgar Thompson, No. 729, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236736293), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236736293