Biography
John Grady was an auto mechanic from Ithaca, NY and patriarch of the Grady family of Catholic radicals. He had previously been a defendant in the Camden 28 anti-draft action of 1971 and worked closely with Daniel and Philip Berrigan; his daughters Clare, Ellen, and Teresa Grady all became major Plowshares and Catholic Worker activists. The Grady family home in Ithaca was a center of Vietnam-era and ongoing antiwar organizing.
Veteran Catholic peace activist and labor organizer, considered an organizational leader of the Camden 28 draft-board raid of August 21–22, 1971. Acquitted with all other tried defendants in the landmark May 1973 jury-nullification verdict in Camden, New Jersey.
Plowshares Number Four custody reconstruction
The original January 1983 report names all seven and dates the action and arrest to November 14, 1982. It reports December 22 release on a promise to appear, after initial imprisonment. This 38-day detention is separate from the later sentence, so time outside prison is excluded.
The May 20, 1983 disposition was six months. A separate record preserves that sentence without equating sentence length with time actually served or copying the initial arrest into later custody.
The July 15 date in issue 18 is an expected release, not confirmation that it occurred; no exact final release has been inferred from it.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister 14, January 14, 1983, pages 3–4; issue 17, June 6, 1983, page 5; issue 18, July 7, 1983, printed page 6; Art Laffin participant chronology.
The executive-board report says Grady could not take a vacant board seat because he was under indictment in Washington. That explains a pending prosecution; indictment alone does not establish a new confinement period.
The One Big Union Monthly, June 1920, vol. 2 no. 6, PDF page 15.
