Biography
Took part in the 1989 Thames River Plowshares at the Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London, CT, climbing onto the Trident submarine USS Pennsylvania.
Reale’s producer biography in The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous says that meeting Daniel Berrigan in 1984 led him to spend four years in Baltimore with Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister in a community organized around voluntary poverty, service and resistance to war. It explicitly says that the 1989 Trident submarine action led to sixty days actually spent in federal prison. It also describes a separate White House fence protest that resulted in another sixty-day prison term, with Philip Berrigan as his cellmate. The biography later places him on a 1993 peacekeeping and humanitarian mission to Bosnia and describes his work as a hospice nurse. These later activities do not extend the documented prison periods. Source: https://theberrigansmovie.com/assets/stuff/2021/11/BERRIGANS_DEVOUTDANGEROUS_PRESS_KIT.pdf#page=6
Thames River custody episodes
Initial custody ended September 5, 1989, after one night. The later sixty-day sentence imposed March 6, 1990 is separate; admission and final release remain unverified.
Source: Participant Arthur J. Laffin's Plowshares chronology.
Identified portrait and time served
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous identifies Reale as a producer and supplies this monochrome, stylized portrait beside his biography. The unchanged publisher-supplied original is not presented as an arrest photograph; photographer and capture date are unconfirmed. His matching biography, also printed on page 6 of the 2021 press kit, reports sixty days actually spent in federal prison following the 1989 Trident action. The sixty-day federal term is recorded independently of the earlier overnight pretrial stay, without guessing its endpoints.
Sources: Film's producer biographies and portrait; 2021 press kit, p. 6.
