# Sam Richard Shockley

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/samuel-shockley/

Alcatraz register no. 462. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 23 September 1938 under a life sentence for bank robbery and kidnapping, a 1946 federal murder trial in San Francisco, and execution at San Quentin on 3 December 1948.

The page prints the birth date 1-12-09 and the catalog 01/12/1910; this page records both and sets neither in the born field. The Bureau of Prisons names Shockley 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. 462: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735583
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Sam Richard Shockley, No. 462, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236735583), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735583