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Classification Form 1b Rev. January 1955

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUREAU OF PRISONS

CLASSIFICATION STUDY (Continued)

Committed Name [REDACTED] Register Number [REDACTED] Page 2

b6 per BOP b7C per BOP

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PRESENT OFFENSE: Official Version: Official information available relates that on August 8, 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska, [REDACTED] took by force and violence and intimidation from an employee of the First Westside Bank at Crossroads Facility, Omaha, Nebraska, money in excess of $50,000 and U.S. Government bonds in excess of $20,000 and certain checks. Count III charged that while he was performing the bank robbery he willfully assaulted the bank employee and put him in jeopardy by using a gun. More detailed information concerning the offense was that Subject and his accomplice forced their way at gunpoint into the home of the bank manager and forced him and his wife to accompany them to the bank, where the bank manager in fear of his life was forced to open the vaults and turn the contents over to Subject. A rather brutal physical assault was perpetrated against the bank manager while he was being held at home. [REDACTED] plead guilty and on March 23, 1962 he received a 20-year sentence on Count I for the robbery and ten years on Count III for the assault, making a total of 30 years. His codefendant, [REDACTED] is at the present time in custody of authorities in the State of New York and federal prosecution will be processed.

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INMATE'S VERSION: When interviewed here concerning his offense, [REDACTED] made the follow- ing statement: "I have no idea why I committed the present offense. My codefendant [REDACTED] I know nothing about." It was apparent that [REDACTED] had no plausible explanation as to why the offense was committed. b6 per BOP b7C per BOP

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PERSONAL HISTORY: His parents are still living. The father, [REDACTED] is now 59 years of age, a native of Canada. Information available from the inmate's mother reveals that the father is in poor health at the present time and that he is steadily employed. His mother, [REDACTED] informs us she is 57 years of age, born in Massachusetts. She is gainfully employed as an administrative secretary at the present time in a private school for boys and maintains that she is self-support- ing. She advises that due to the excessive drinking of Subject's father, she has deemed it best that he live outside of the home and although they are not legally separated, they are not living together only by mutual consent. The father does not furnish any financial assistance to the mother. Information available reveals that the father has been arrested on innumerable occasions for being drunk. b6 per BOP b7C per BOP [REDACTED] has two brothers and a sister. Two children are deceased. He is not the only delinquent member of the family as his father was arrested on innumerable occasions for drunkenness and his brother [REDACTED] was in trouble as a juvenile. The mother points out that none of the other members of the family were ever involved in trouble.

[REDACTED] was born [REDACTED] the third child born in a family of six children. Two of the siblings are now deceased. The mother points out that he was a healthy child, walked at the age of nine months, progressed through the usual childhood diseases without any after-effects. He states that he enjoyed a warm relationship with his mother and father and also his sister and brothers, the relationship being more and more close to the mother due to the frequent absences of the father from the home. He was reared largely by his mother and due to the father being away from home so often, he was placed with relatives and in foster homes and orphanages at various times since the mother had an extremely difficult time supporting the four children.

Subject began school at the age of five, going through the tenth grade before

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DB Cooper-4814