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Bill O'Donnell

AKA: William O'Donnell; Father William O'Donnell
Released
Date of birth:02. 01. 1930
Date of death:08. 12. 2003
Age:73† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#85713-011
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
6 Months
Support
Anti-War Anti-Imperialism School of the Americas Watch Catholic Worker Movement
Bill O'Donnell

Biography

Father William “Bill” O'Donnell, a Berkeley peace activist associated with the San Carlos Foundation, crossed onto Fort Benning during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil. He was sentenced to six months in federal prison and a $1,000 fine. Source: https://www.soaw-austin.org/POC1983_2012.php

Separate January 2, 1986 Livermore citation and release

The January 20, 1986 Livermore report individually names Rev. William O’Donnell among six people arrested on January 2 while holding a “Stop Testing — Research Peace” banner at the laboratory entrance. It expressly says the six were cited and released that same day, with later arraignment notification still forthcoming. William O’Donnell is already an explicitly recorded alias of Bill O’Donnell; this is not an inferred nickname expansion. The brief 1986 custody is separate from the existing 2002–2003 School of the Americas imprisonment. No jail-admission time, overnight stay, conviction, sentence or additional whole-day imprisonment counter is inferred.

The Nuclear Resister No.37, January 20, 1986, original page4.

Cases

Fort Benning
Charges: Entering a military reservation (18 U.S.C. § 1382)
Arrested: Sep 10, 2002
Incarcerated: September 10, 2002
Released: March 10, 2003
Sentence: Six months in federal prison and a $1,000 fine
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Georgia
Arrested: Jan 2, 1986
Released: Jan 2, 1986
Sentence: Individually named among six people arrested at the Livermore laboratory entrance January 2, 1986 and expressly cited and released the same day. A later arraignment was still prospective. This is brief temporary custody, not a documented overnight prison stay or a served-day sentence; no exact jail-admission time or additional full-day total is inferred.