Biography
Joan Cavanagh was an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist associated with Baltimore resistance communities and a co-founder of the Atlantic Life Community. Source: https://libarchives.southernct.edu/repositories/2/resources/16
Friends Journal’s introduction to the signed courtroom statements individually identifies Cavanagh among those arrested October 4, 1975 at Pratt & Whitney’s fiftieth-anniversary airshow in East Hartford, Connecticut, and explicitly states that she spent 30 days in prison. Her own statement identifies the charge as criminal trespass and explains her antiwar and anti-nuclear opposition to military aircraft production. She alleges that security guards tackled, kicked and dragged her; that account is her testimony, not a separately adjudicated finding. The thirty actual days belong to this distinct Connecticut episode and do not supply a start or release date for the older aggregate White House/Pentagon record.
Friends Journal, February 1, 1976, printed pages 75–77 (PDF 11–13).
An Associated Press report published December 26, 1973 individually names Cavanagh among four Baltimore demonstrators charged with disorderly conduct after trying to chain themselves to the White House fence on Christmas Day. Two other named protesters were charged with unlawful entry after climbing the fence. This establishes Cavanagh’s December 25 arrest and police charge for that separate event, but not overnight custody, a sentence, or the endpoints of the aggregate White House/Pentagon entry.
Big Spring Herald, December 26, 1973, printed page 2-A (PDF 2).
