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Eleanor Calkins

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Wyoming
Time Imprisoned:
3 Months 13 Days
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Eleanor Calkins

Biography

Eleanor Calkins was a pacifist jailed with her husband Kenneth in the 1958 nonviolent protest against the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile base near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Convicted of trespassing, the couple served 104-day sentences and marked their first wedding anniversary in jail.

Case

Charges: Trespassing — antinuclear protest at the Cheyenne ICBM missile site
Arrested: Aug 18, 1958
Sentenced: Aug 20, 1958
Incarcerated: August 1958
Sentence: 104 days in jail
Convicted: Yes