Skip to content

Jerry Wasser

Era:1960s
State:New Mexico
Support
No image available

Biography

Jerry Wasser was jailed during antidraft leafleting in Albuquerque on May 16, 1967. A participant reported release about an hour later.

Jerry Wasser was jailed during antidraft leafleting in Albuquerque on May 16, 1967. A participant reported release about an hour later.

A participant account published in New Left Notes on July 24, 1967 names Jerry Madison, Roger Anderson, Larry Russell and Jerry Wasser in the Albuquerque antidraft-leafleting prosecution. The account describes booking, fingerprinting and confinement in a jail tank on May 16, followed by release about an hour later. It also reports a later conviction with a suspended monetary penalty. The short detention is distinct from an imposed sentence; no number of completed prison days is assigned.

New Left Notes, July 24, 1967, physical page 5.

Case

Charges: Vagrancy, following antidraft leafleting
Arrested: May 16, 1967
Incarcerated: May 16, 1967
Released: May 16, 1967
Convicted: Yes