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Samuel Richard Shockley, Jr.
Samuel Shockley's Alcatraz mugshot
Born
(1909-01-12)January 12, 1909
Cerro Gordo, Caney Township, Little River County, Arkansas, U.S.
Died
December 3, 1948(1948-12-03) (aged 39)
San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, U.S.
Cause of death
Execution by gas chamber
Resting place
Pollard cemetery in Haworth, Oklahoma
Other names
Crazy Sam, Little Sam, Sam Barnes
Criminal status
Executed
Parent(s)
Richard "Dick" Shockley, Annyer Eugenia Bearden
Conviction(s)
First degree murder of a federal employee (18 U.S.C. §§ 253 and 452) Bank robbery (12 U.S.C. § 588b) Kidnapping (18 U.S.C. § 408)
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment (May 16, 1938) Death (December 21, 1946)
Samuel Richard Shockley, Jr. (January 12, 1909 – December 3, 1948) was an inmate at Alcatraz prison, who was executed for his participation in the Alcatraz uprising or Battle of Alcatraz in 1946.
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in the main plan, Marvin Hubbard, Joseph Cretzer and Clarence Carnes. SamShockley and Miran Thompson joined the escapees after the attempt had begun. Coy...
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the two other survivors, SamShockley and Miran Edgar Thompson, and was found guilty of participating in the plot. Shockley and Thompson were sentenced...
wounded, and the others were sent to solitary confinement. Joe Cretzer, SamShockley, Arnold Kyle, and Lloyd Barkdoll were working in the industries area...
the last man to be executed by hanging in California on May 1, 1942. SamShockley and Miran Edgar Thompson: convicted of killing a guard in the 1946 Battle...
overlooking the cell house. Coy along with Joe Cretzer, Marvin Hubbard, SamShockley, Miran Thompson, and Clarence Carnes planned to break into the gun galleries...
carry out Jon's death sentence. On December 3, 1948, Miran Thompson and SamShockley were executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison for their...
American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas and Midwest City, Oklahoma in...
the island's workshops called the Model Industries Building along with SamShockley, Arnold Kyle, and Lloyd Barkdoll. Cretzer prior to the escape used American...
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for power diodes and can be modeled by a Shockley ideal diode in series with a fixed resistor. The Shockley ideal diode equation or the diode law (named...
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also known as the "Alcatraz Blast Out". Bernard Coy, Joseph Cretzer, SamShockley, Clarence Carnes, Marvin Hubbard and Miran Thompson took control of the...
to eliminate witnesses. Thompson was found guilty along with inmate SamShockley, and they were executed simultaneously in the gas chamber of San Quentin...
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be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972...
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Hubble John Maynard Keynes Leakey family Jean Piaget Jonas Salk William Shockley Alan Turing Francis Crick & James Watson Ludwig Wittgenstein Wright brothers...
Hubble John Maynard Keynes Leakey family Jean Piaget Jonas Salk William Shockley Alan Turing Francis Crick & James Watson Ludwig Wittgenstein Wright brothers...
Hubble John Maynard Keynes Leakey family Jean Piaget Jonas Salk William Shockley Alan Turing Francis Crick & James Watson Ludwig Wittgenstein Wright brothers...
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