Biography
Corporal E. F. Henry, 20, of Ivanhoe, North Carolina, was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested after confronting what they believed was a Ku Klux Klan meeting on November 13, 1976. Contemporary reports identify Henry as the first defendant brought to court-martial. He pleaded guilty to reduced assault and conspiracy charges and received three months of hard labor, a reduction in pay, and demotion to private.
The January 12 report identifies Corporal E. F. Henry, twenty, of Ivanhoe, North Carolina, as the first Camp Pendleton defendant court-martialed and says he pleaded guilty to six assault counts. It identifies Lt. Col. F. Latimer Gould as the judge who presided. The account places the case in the November 13 barracks confrontation and reports defense testimony about Klan emblems and official inaction; it does not supply a new actual release date.
