| − | Shell was born in tiny La Conner in Skagit County in northwestern [[Washington]],<ref name=latimes>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/11/local/me-shell11|title=Joe Shell (1918-2008):Ex-legislator challenged Nixon|date=April 11, 2008|publisher=''[[Los Angeles Times]]''|accessdate=May 13, 2018|author=Valerie J. Nelson}}</ref> to Joseph Lieb Shell and the former Nell Schunemann. The elder Shell was an [[Native American|Indian]] agent for the United States Department of Interior in Washington State. When Shell was two years old, his family moved to [[San Diego]], California, at which his father was a municipal and then a superior court [[judge]], and his mother was a homemaker. He also had a sister, Cheryl. Shell graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, at which he was senior class president and a key [[football]] player. One of his Hoover classmates was [[baseball]] superstar [[Ted Williams]]. Shell was recruited by the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]], and [[Stanford University]] in Palo Alto, California, but instead he chose to attend the [[University of Southern California]] in [[Los Angeles]]. In 1940, he procured his Bachelor of Science in business administration.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bakersfield/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=107273816|title= | + | Shell was born in tiny La Conner in Skagit County in northwestern [[Washington]],<ref name=latimes>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/11/local/me-shell11|title=Joe Shell (1918-2008):Ex-legislator challenged Nixon|date=April 11, 2008|publisher=''[[Los Angeles Times]]''|accessdate=May 13, 2018|author=Valerie J. Nelson}}</ref> to Joseph Lieb Shell and the former Nell Schunemann. The elder Shell was an [[Native American|Indian]] agent for the United States Department of Interior in Washington State. When Shell was two years old, his family moved to [[San Diego]], California, at which his father was a municipal and then a superior court [[judge]], and his mother was a homemaker. He also had a sister, Cheryl. Shell graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, at which he was senior class president and a key [[football]] player. One of his Hoover classmates was [[baseball]] superstar [[Ted Williams]]. Shell was recruited by the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]], and [[Stanford University]] in Palo Alto, California, but instead he chose to attend the [[University of Southern California]] in [[Los Angeles]]. In 1940, he procured his Bachelor of Science in business administration.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bakersfield/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=107273816|title= |
| | |title=Joe Shell|publisher=''The Bakersfield Californian''|date=April 9, 2008|accessdate=May 13, 2018}}</ref> | | |title=Joe Shell|publisher=''The Bakersfield Californian''|date=April 9, 2008|accessdate=May 13, 2018}}</ref> |