Biography
Jack Gilroy crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months, $1000 fine.
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.
The book records that Gilroy served three months at Jamesville Correctional Facility in 2014 for a nonviolent die-in at the Hancock drone base. In his 2002 narrative, he also recalled being at Allenwood Prison Camp on September 11, 2001.
The biographical introduction explicitly says Gilroy served three months in Jamesville Correctional Facility in2014 for the Hancock drone-base die-in. This fills admission YEAR2014 and the blank institution for the already recorded distinct Hancock case; January1 is solely the YEAR storage anchor. Actual release day and exact served-day count remain unknown. His separate2001Allenwood account contradicts the legacy2000–May2001SOA row and is held without modifying that row or creating an overlapping new case.
