Richard Bunch

Released
Date of birth:16. 08. 1949
Date of death:11. 10. 1968
Age:19† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
25 Days
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Richard Bunch was a young stockade prisoner at the Presidio of San Francisco whose killing triggered the "Presidio 27" mutiny protest. On October 11, 1968, a guard shot him in the back with a shotgun as he walked away from a work detail. His death outraged the other prisoners, twenty-seven of whom staged a sit-down protest three days later and were charged with mutiny.

Case

Presidio Stockade
Charges: Absence without leave (three specifications) and breaking restriction (two specifications); awaiting court-martial while confined at the Presidio. Source: U.S. Army fact sheet reprinted in Congressional Record, April 2, 1969, p. 8478 (PDF p. 77), https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1969-pt7/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1969-pt7-1-2.pdf
Incarcerated: Sep 16, 1968
Released: Oct 11, 1968
Sentence: Shot and killed by a Presidio stockade guard on October 11, 1968.
Institution State: California

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