Biography
Jerry F. Tung was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war research and recruitment. Tung later helped found the Communist Workers Party.
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Separate May 1969 case and actual imprisonment reported May 1971
The May 4, 1971 Statesman individually names Jerry Tung with Ira Wechsler as then serving prison terms after convictions for the May 1969 campus disorders. This establishes physical imprisonment by the publication date, but gives neither the personal admission or discharge day nor the term length. It is a distinct later case from the March 1969 library-protest fifteen-day row already stored in this profile. May 4 is not entered as an admission, and no continuous March 1969–May 1971 interval or Wechsler’s fourteen-month term is assigned to Tung.
Statesman, Stony Brook, volume14 no.48, May4,1971, original page1.
The Communist Workers Party’s May 11–17, 1981 newspaper identifies its general secretary as Jerry Tung and retrospectively describes his imprisonment on 29 counts of inciting to riot. The account does not date that confinement, so it does not establish new admission or release dates.
The front-page roster individually names this student among the twenty-one defendants sentenced by Justice Edward U. Green Jr. following the library occupation against university war research and recruitment. It reports guilty pleas to reduced loitering violations and fifteen-day county-jail sentences. The prosecutor requested an additional $100 fine, but the article does not say the judge imposed it. The sentence was still being served as of this issue; it is not proof of a completed fifteen days or an exact release. Existing independently recorded service evidence is retained.
