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Gary Maynard

Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Ohio
Time Imprisoned:
18 Days
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Biography

Gary Maynard was a National Organizing Committee organizer distributing political literature in Columbus, Ohio in connection with Peggy Terry’s campaign. The January 1969 Movement reported that authorities held him for eighteen days pending a security investigation after arrest on charges of possessing obscene literature and assaulting a police officer.

Gary Maynard was a National Organizing Committee organizer distributing political literature in Columbus, Ohio in connection with Peggy Terry’s campaign. The January 1969 Movement reported that authorities held him for eighteen days pending a security investigation after arrest on charges of possessing obscene literature and assaulting a police officer. The Movement reports eighteen days actually jailed in Columbus pending a security investigation, followed by release. It supplies no precise arrest, admission, release or conviction date. The reported detention is connected to his distribution of National Organizing Committee literature in the Peggy Terry campaign.

The Movement, January 1969, printed page 21 (PDF page20).

Case

Charges: Possessing obscene literature and assaulting a police officer, according to contemporary reporting
Sentence: The Movement reports eighteen days actually jailed in Columbus pending a security investigation, followed by release. It supplies no precise arrest, admission, release or conviction date. The reported detention is connected to his distribution of National Organizing Committee literature in the Peggy Terry campaign.