Biography
Ed Kinane is an Upstate New York anti-war activist arrested repeatedly at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse for protesting Reaper drone operations.
Birth-year sources
- School of the Americas Watch prisoner roster — identifies Syracuse activist Ed Kinane as 53 at the November 17, 1997 action.
- Mondoweiss profile — identifies the same Syracuse organizer and former SOA prisoner as 74 on August 6, 2019. The two dated ages establish 1944 as his birth year; no unsupported month or day was assigned.
Earlier line-crossing sentencing context distinct from sign alteration
Lorraine Krofchok’s January 21,1998 trial report, printed in the May 1998 newsletter on original page3, individually quotes this defendant in the Fort Benning line-crossing proceedings. It reports six-month terms and $3,000 fines in the collective sentencing account, with twenty-two to go to jail alongside three previously sentenced. This is not the separate September 1997 SOA sign-alteration prosecution currently recorded with a later 1998 prison phase. The article’s subsequent twenty-person March 23 reporting roster does not include this name; its common intake date must not be copied here. A remark in a collective sentencing report is not by itself a physical-prison admission or proof of a completed six-month term. No actual release, individual exact sentence date, new jail interval or numeric counter is inferred.
Grandmothers for Peace International, May 1998 newsletter, original pages 3–4.
The Pardon Attorney’s April 15, 1998 letter says Bichsel, Eilerman, Kinane and Trotochaud had not yet begun the November 1997 protest sentences while awaiting sentencing in another case. It is therefore unsafe to copy the other defendants’ common March 23 intake date onto these four. Mike Lowry’s October 21 letter distinguishes the September 1997 sign-alteration prosecution and reports that their six-month line-crossing terms were ordered consecutive to the sign-case terms. A clemency request is not a grant, and nominal consecutive sentences are not proof of an equivalent amount of actual service.
The legacy sign-case row’s September 1997 arrest cannot also be the start of uninterrupted imprisonment through 1999: the April 1998 Justice Department letter says he was still awaiting sentencing and had not begun the sentence. That row’s unsupported admission and 671-day counter are removed. The other detailed custody row and its endpoints remain separate pending reconciliation; neither row should be added as a second served term for the same events.
Clinton Library, April 15, 1998 Pardon Attorney letter, PDF page 58.
The clemency petition identifies October 5, 1998 as Kinane’s actual federal prison entry. It distinguishes a six-month trespass sentence from an additional ten-month property-damage term.
