Biography
Bernard Meyer, a Roman Catholic priest associated with Cleveland, was one of the D.C. Nine who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices in March 1969 to protest napalm manufacture. A contemporary report names all nine participants and says they fasted in jail for a week before posting bond. His later disposition and any additional imprisonment are recorded separately.
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The April 22, 1969 Daily Iowan reproduced a College Press Service report identifying all nine Dow Chemical protesters individually, including Catherine Melville and Bernard Meyer. It states that the nine began a fast in jail rather than post bond, ended the fast a week later, and then posted bond. This documents a one-week pretrial stay for the whole named group; it contradicts a blanket claim that only two participants ever spent time in jail. The week is a known pretrial subtotal, not a measure of any later sentence. The article gives no exact release day; no release date is inferred by adding seven days to the existing arrest date.
