Biography
Joe Rudder was an Army private and member of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. A July 1969 contemporary report states that he was among the Fort Jackson Eight imprisoned for 62 days before the Army conceded that it had no case. Army officials subsequently sought an undesirable discharge because of his political activities.
Joe Rudder was an Army private and member of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. A July 1969 contemporary report states that he was among the Fort Jackson Eight imprisoned for 62 days before the Army conceded that it had no case. Army officials subsequently sought an undesirable discharge because of his political activities.
Historical record; no present custody or release status is asserted. Unknown physical custody endpoints remain blank.
The individual stockade mailing list prints Eugene J. Rudder, Joseph F. Cole, Andrew C. Pulley and Delmar H. Thomas among the five antiwar soldiers actually confined at Fort Jackson. The adjacent report dates the group arrests March20 and discusses the Army’s admission that John Huffman was its undercover agent, compromising defense conferences. The observation of continued custody does not negate later independently established release or actual service. Existing shortened names are resolved through the same FortJackson case and corroborating full-name references.
