24 Facts About Clyde Thompson

Clyde Vernon Thompson was an American prisoner turned chaplain.

Clyde Thompson is most noted for being cited and labeled as The Meanest Man in Texas.

Clyde Thompson was placed in a special solitary confinement cell formerly used as the morgue outside of death row at the Huntsville Unit, known as "the Walls Unit" in Huntsville, Texas and incarcerated there for the next five and a half years.

Clyde Thompson subsequently lied on the witness stand in order to spare his older brother.

Clyde Thompson refused to testify on his own behalf when his trial for first degree murder started on October 15,1928.

Clyde Thompson was sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Clyde Thompson watched as Ratliff rushed from his cell and scampered down the stairs to the sheriff's office.

Again found guilty at his appeal trial, Clyde Thompson was sent to death row in Huntsville, Texas in March, 1931.

Clyde Thompson was within hours of execution when Texas Governor Ross Sterling commuted his sentence to life in prison.

In 1936, Clyde Thompson was transferred to a special unit known as Little Alcatraz reserved for the most dangerous convicts.

Thornton was the husband of Bonnie Parker who was still legally married to him when she and Clyde Thompson Barrow were killed on May 23,1934.

Clyde Thompson was later falsely accused of killing yet another inmate.

Clyde Thompson initially probed in the book to prove that people who believed it were fools.

Clyde Thompson subsequently completed correspondence courses in Bible and journalism from Lee College in Baytown, Texas.

Clyde Thompson was removed from the old morgue in 1944 and placed in close-custody cellblocks in the Walls Unit and later at the Wynne Unit.

The minister at her church knew of Clyde Thompson and encouraged members to send him a card.

Clyde Thompson went on to say that she had a severely misshapen spine due to scoliosis as child.

Clyde Thompson was eligible for parole for the first time in 1949 and routinely denied.

Clyde Thompson was upgraded in status in early 1951 when he was removed from close confinement and sent to the Ramsey Farm in Rosharon, Texas.

Clyde Thompson was again refused parole later that year and in 1953.

Clyde Thompson was finally awarded parole and released from prison on November 1,1955.

For nine months in 1960, Clyde Thompson served as the superintendent of the Manuelito Navajo Indian Children's Home in Gallup, New Mexico.

Clyde Thompson enjoyed his greatest ministry success when helping prisoners and former prisoners.

Clyde Thompson was a guest on the Chaplain Ray radio program.