Biography
Duane Ferre appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of conscientious resisters, held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
A 1968 Counterpoint letters page (printed page 16) identifies Lt. R. Duane Ferré as imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth after becoming a conscientious objector while serving in the Air Force. This supports the separate military-confinement episode, not the later UFO Coffeehouse case. The page does not establish exact confinement or release dates.
Intercontinental Press of May 11, 1970 names the UFO Coffeehouse trial judge as Agnew (surname only) and the prosecutor as John Foard. It identifies defense attorney Reber Boult and reports that the defense intended to appeal after the judge rejected forty-eight new-trial motions. Its April 28 six-year sentencing report corroborates the existing sentence date; six years is the imposed term, not time actually served. The newspaper’s claims about prosecution witnesses and political motivation are attributed reporting, not independent court findings.
