Biography
Donald Vance Reed was an antiwar Vietnam veteran and Alabama veterans-services organizer. A contemporary support account portrayed his federal prosecution as targeting that work. An Air Force letter confirms he was physically imprisoned at Gunter in July 1984.
Donald Vance Reed was an antiwar Vietnam veteran and Alabama veterans-services organizer. A contemporary support account portrayed his federal prosecution as targeting that work. An Air Force letter confirms he was physically imprisoned at Gunter in July 1984. Contemporary support account describes a three-year federal term. A probation officer’s letter identifies the June 22, 1983 sentencing hearing in case CR-83-P-0094-S. An Air Force letter confirms his imprisonment at Gunter in July 1984; the admission and release dates remain unknown.
A November 8, 1983 U.S. probation officer’s letter identifies his witness-intimidation case and the June 22 sentencing hearing. It distinguishes the earlier misdemeanor convictions for simple cocaine and marijuana possession from uncharged allegations. A July 12, 1984 Air Force letter identifies him as a federal prisoner at Gunter. Its approximate three-month work assignment does not establish his first prison admission or total service.
