Clarence Carnes
Clarence Victor Carnes | |
|---|---|
First degree murder | |
| Criminal penalty | Federal Life imprisonment plus 104 years Oklahoma Life imprisonment |
Clarence Victor Carnes (January 14, 1927 – October 3, 1988), known as The Choctaw Kid, was a
Early life
Clarence Carnes was born in
Alcatraz
Carnes arrived on Alcatraz on July 6, 1945. On May 2, 1946, Carnes and five other inmates participated in a failed attempt to escape from Alcatraz which turned into the bloody "Battle of Alcatraz", so-called because three inmates and two prison officers died. After the escape failed, he was tried for murder along with the two other survivors, Sam Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson, and was found guilty of participating in the plot. Shockley and Thompson were sentenced to death, however Carnes was not executed because he had not directly participated in the murders of the officers and was instead given a life sentence. Some corrections officers who had been taken hostage testified that he had refrained from following instructions to kill them.[4]
Carnes remained on Alcatraz until its closure in 1963, spending most of the time there in the segregation unit. He claimed that he had received a postcard from
Parole, re-incarceration, death
At the time of Carnes' convictions, the federal government still had parole. Consequently, he was paroled in 1973, at the age of 46. However, Carnes's parole was revoked twice due to parole violations and he was sent back to prison with BOP# 61805-132. He died of
In 1989, Massachusetts
In popular culture
Carnes' life was dramatized in the 1980 Telepictures Corporation TV movie Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story. The film, which aired in two 95 minute parts, starred Michael Beck as Clarence Carnes.
The Battle of Alcatraz was dramatized in the 1987 TV movie Six Against the Rock, based on the novel by Clark Howard. While most of the characters were given the names of the real inmates (such as
Carnes' life was interpreted in Rolling Way the Rock, a performance piece by Tim Tingle, also a Choctaw man, which premiered in 2006 at the International Symposium of Artists of Conscience in Victoria, British Columbia.[9]
On 2018, Derek Nelson portrayed Carnes in the film “Alcatraz,” which has Carnes as the central figure of the film, with interiors and exteriors shot at a prison in Brighton, England, and on Alcatraz Island, now a US National Park site.
References
- ^ "Survivor Of Alcatraz Escape Attempt Dies In Prison". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- ^ Ritchey, Romney M. (27 July 1945). "Carnes Psychiatric Report (1945)". Archived from the original on 8 June 2007.
- ^ "Carnes". The Salt Lake Tribune. April 20, 1945. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ^ "Shockley v. United States, 166 F.2d 704 (9th Cir. 1948)". Justia Law. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ^ "'Choctaw Kid' Carnes dies in prison". Herald & Review. Decatur, Illinois. AP. October 6, 1988. p. 9. Retrieved November 29, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Ranalli, Ralph (19 January 1998). "Whitey paid for Alcatraz inmate's funeral Bulger didn't forget 'Rock' pal" (PDF). Boston Herald. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011.
- ^ a b Murphy, Shelley (November 29, 2018). "'Whitey' Bulger wished for 'peaceful death,' prison letters say". The Boston Globe. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
- ^ "ExecutedToday.com » 1948: Sam Shockley and Miran Thompson, for the Battle of Alcatraz". Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ^ "Tim Tingle | Kennedy Center". www.kennedy-center.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.