Biography
Francis Woolever crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / WHINSEC. Sentenced to 90 days in federal custody for trespass on a military installation.
Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
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Additional original custody evidence
The Griffiss update reports dismissal of Frank Woolever’s citation for painting shadows at the base entrance on August 6, 1985. The dismissal was conditional on no arrest at Griffiss for six months. It does not document a six-month prison sentence or multiday confinement; no custody counter or additional prison episode is created from that condition.
The Nuclear Resister No.35, October 24, 1985: PDF page 7.
