Biography
Eugene "Gene" Dixon was a Camden resident, father of four, and a longtime supervisor for a Philadelphia automotive company, thirty-seven at the Camden 28 indictment. He was active in Catholic religious education and the PTA and was known as a poet. He was severed from the main trial and his charges were dismissed after the May 1973 acquittals. He continued writing poetry and books after retirement.
Photo: Akira Suwa / The Philadelphia Inquirer. Original-image crop; identified by the source (Eugene Dixon at right, with Michael Doyle at left). Source: https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/camden-catholic-vietnam-war-draft-protest-reunion-20181211.html . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
The June 1, 1973 Militant identified Camden defendant Eugene Dixon by the name Gene Dixon in a telephone interview about the main trial’s acquittals. The article records that seventeen defendants were acquitted on May 21, while other defendants had separate proceedings; it does not individually establish Dixon’s own disposition or release.
