Biography
Andrew Pulley was a Black antiwar Army organizer at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and a member of the Fort Jackson Eight. He helped organize GIs United Against the War in Vietnam and was confined in the stockade after a March 1969 antiwar meeting. Fifth Estate reported that Pulley, Joseph Cole and Eugene Jose Rudder were actually released from the stockade on May 20, 1969, after the Army dropped the charges. The accounts describe roughly two months of actual confinement. Pulley later became a Socialist Workers Party candidate and antiwar speaker.
The Fort Jackson Eight report names this soldier among the four still in the stockade at the time of the April 22, 1969 hearings. It distinguishes them from four other defendants restricted to barracks. The March 20 meeting arrests and Article 32 proceedings do not establish a completed individual term in this article. The Black Panther, May4,1969 vol2 no2, original PDF page 9. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/03n02-may%204%201969.pdf#page=9
In September 1984, Andrew Pulley was the Socialist Workers Party candidate for Michigan’s First Congressional District and an auto-worker advocate of public health care. He opposed the August 13 privatization of Wayne County General Hospital, supported its AFSCME Local 25 workers and proposed taxing the major auto companies to fund public hospitals. This is later organizing activity, not another confinement. Source: https://www.themilitant.com/1984/4835/MIL4835.pdf#page=10
Andrew Pulley was a Black antiwar Army organizer at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and a member of the Fort Jackson Eight. He helped organize GIs United Against the War in Vietnam and was confined in the stockade after a March 1969 antiwar meeting. Fifth Estate reported that Pulley, Joseph Cole and Eugene Jose Rudder were actually released from the stockade on May 20, 1969, after the Army dropped the charges. The accounts describe roughly two months of actual confinement. Pulley later became a Socialist Workers Party candidate and antiwar speaker.
The Militant, September 17, 1971, PDF page 8; supplemental contemporary Fifth Estate article, Victory at Ft. Jackson, issue80 May29–June11,1969; supplemental primary interview, Fred Halstead, Antiwar GIs Speak, July–August1969.
The May 4, 1969 Black Panther reports that the Fort Jackson Eight faced allegations of breach of peace, disrespect, disobeying an order and holding an illegal meeting. Article 32 hearings began April 22. It individually identifies Joe Cole and Andrew Pulley as still confined in the stockade, distinguishing four other defendants under barracks arrest. This is pretrial confinement; the hearing date is not assigned as admission or sentencing. Existing later outcome and actual-time figures are preserved.
The individual stockade mailing list prints Eugene J. Rudder, Joseph F. Cole, Andrew C. Pulley and Delmar H. Thomas among the five antiwar soldiers actually confined at Fort Jackson. The adjacent report dates the group arrests March20 and discusses the Army’s admission that John Huffman was its undercover agent, compromising defense conferences. The observation of continued custody does not negate later independently established release or actual service. Existing shortened names are resolved through the same FortJackson case and corroborating full-name references.
