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Howard Morland

Released
Date of birth:14. 09. 1942
Age:84
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1970s
State:New Hampshire
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War
Howard Morland

Biography

Former U.S. Air Force C-141 pilot trained to ferry nuclear weapons who became, in 1979, the journalist who "discovered" and published the Teller-Ulam (H-bomb) design in The Progressive — triggering U.S. v. Progressive Inc., the first prior-restraint case the U.S. brought against an American magazine since the Pentagon Papers. Before the H-bomb article, after a year of graduate work at Dartmouth he became a full-time Clamshell Alliance organizer and co-founded the group in 1976.

Case

Charges: Criminal trespass
Arrested: Apr 29, 1977
Incarcerated: Apr 29, 1977
Released: May 1977
Sentence: Held without bail in NH National Guard armory ~13 days; criminal trespass charges most dismissed.
Convicted: No