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Richard Bunch

Date of death:11. 10. 1968
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:California
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GI Resistance
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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 (AWOL) (Presidio stockade)
Incarcerated: 1968
Released: Oct 11, 1968
Sentence: Shot and killed by a Presidio stockade guard on October 11, 1968.
Convicted: Died in custody — shot in the back by a stockade guard on October 11, 1968.
Institution State: California