Biography
Alfred Buzzi was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth; Fort Douglas. Sentenced to 15 years in prison - reduced to 4 years. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: classifed as a 3, later as 7B; interviewed, on charge of disobedience of orders, at Deavers and on Feb. 5, 1919 at the Disciplinary Barracks by Special Board; sentenced to 15 years in prison - reduced to 4 years; imprisoned at Ft. Douglas War Prison Barracks; member of I.W.W. …
The photograph caption identifies Alfredo Buzzi reading the magazine inside Fort Douglas with a magpie on his knee. It corroborates confinement and a source spelling variation. The adjacent alien-enemy parole report does not individually establish release of this military conscientious objector.
The One Big Union Monthly, June 1920, vol. 2 no. 6, PDF page 39.
