Biography
George Thompson was individually named among the General Dynamics/Norwich nonviolent blockaders who had served two weeks in jail before being brought to court January 25, 1985, when charges were dismissed. The same issue’s Recently Released list confirms actual release in 1985. Fourteen actual documented days are retained, but dismissal is not silently equated with an exact physical-release day and no first admission is back-calculated. This case is specifically the Norwich nuclear-weapons-related blockade, not an unrelated namesake’s case.
Contemporary source and limits
George Thompson was individually named among the General Dynamics/Norwich nonviolent blockaders who had served two weeks in jail before being brought to court January 25, 1985, when charges were dismissed. The same issue’s Recently Released list confirms actual release in 1985. Fourteen actual documented days are retained, but dismissal is not silently equated with an exact physical-release day and no first admission is back-calculated. This case is specifically the Norwich nuclear-weapons-related blockade, not an unrelated namesake’s case.
Only individually documented actual custody is preserved. Nominal sentences, civil-appeal forecasts and case-disposition dates do not establish actual time served or release. No birth/death date, race, gender, unsupported name expansion or present custody status is inferred.
Earlier 1984–1985 custody chronology
The earlier January 23 issue places this same nine-person Norwich blockade on January 11, 1985, the day before the January 12 USS Alaska launch protest. It individually lists all nine as then held in jail pending trial. This identifies the arrest/action date for the already recorded fourteen-day Norwich case; it does not create another January episode or turn the later January 25 dismissal into an independently printed physical-release day. No exact first booking timestamp is inferred merely from the action date.
The Nuclear Resister No. 28, January 23, 1985, PDF pages [4].
