Biography
Bill Wahl was a physician and anti-nuclear activist associated with Ground Zero Center. Glen Milner recalled his protest arrests and days in jail in a February 2020 eulogy. Source: https://www.gzcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/April-2020-newsletter-for-website-FINAL.pdf
Documented protest arrests
Glen Milner’s firsthand memorial identifies their joint arrests on February 22, 1985, during a nuclear-weapons train blockade, and December 27, 1987, at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. The train-blockade defendants were acquitted by a Kitsap County jury in June 1985. Milner recalls Wahl spending days in jail, but does not assign those days to either arrest; no precise incarceration or release endpoint is inferred.
Photograph: Wahl, right, being arrested at Bangor on December 27, 1987. Credit: Larry Steagall, Bremerton (Kitsap) Sun. The original individually embedded photograph is retained unchanged. Source: Ground Zero newsletter, April 2020, pages 3 and 11.
Glen Milner’s firsthand memorial recalls Wahl’s testimony at the June 1985 nuclear-weapons train-blockade trial and the Kitsap County jury’s acquittal of all demonstrators the following day. It separately recalls the February 22, 1985 and December 27, 1987 arrests. The eulogy was delivered February 22, 2020; that memorial date is not his death date.
Ground Zero, April2020, Volume25 Issue2, PDF page 3; Ground Zero, April2020, Volume25 Issue2, PDF page 11.
