Biography
Kathleen Rumpf born September 1, 1951. Catholic Worker peace activist. Arrested over 100 times; participated in anti-war activities with Berrigan family and Dorothy Day, 1978; joined Greenham Common, Seneca Peace Camp, 1983. Spent 18 months jail for 1983 Thanksgiving Day protest, hammering dents in B-2 bomber. Held 3-day vigil at Pentagon with sign: ”IT’S A SIN TO BUILD A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” 1983. Led women’s hokey-pokey dance on red line Nevada Test Site, 1989; 4-day fast protesting aid to El Salvador, 1989; Operation Desert Shield protest, 1990; trespass at federal building protest against Iraq War, 1992. Lived in cage in public protest of US jails. First federal prison term of nine months for spray-painting “School of Shame” at School of Americas entrance, 1998; killer drone protests, 2011.
Karl Smith’s first-person account in the March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister names Kathleen Rumpf among seven Capitol rotunda antiwar protesters who refused a $10 bond and were held overnight before arraignment the next afternoon. The printed account calls the arrest January 20 and also places it hours before the State of the Union; the official Reagan Library dates that address January 25, 1983. The precise arrest day is therefore unresolved. The sixty-day sentences imposed on Smith, Rumpf and Frank Carver were suspended, not sixty days actually served.
Separate 1983 episode and contemporary limits
The Groton report individually names Kathleen Rumpf, Martin Holladay and Jean Holladay as canoeing alongside the USS Georgia June 20, 1983 before their arrests. By this July issue Jean had been released June 30, while Kathleen and Martin remained imprisoned after refusing to promise to return. Kathleen is identified at Niantic Women’s Prison. This actual 1983 detention is distinct from the existing 1997 cases. The directory’s July 15 date is expected release only and is not an actual discharge. Her separate New Year’s Day criminal-mischief charge is not silently assigned to the June canoe action; the precise June charge is unverified.
The Nuclear Resister No.18, July 7, 1983, original pages 1, 3.
Initial Griffiss custody ended December 12, 1983
The Thanksgiving at Griffiss report individually names Kathleen Rumpf among seven resisters who entered Griffiss Air Force Base on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1983. All seven were initially held on an Air Force bus, then remained in Syracuse City Jail until their December 12 arraignment, when they were released on their own recognizance. This establishes an initial eighteen-elapsed-day interval, not continuous custody through any later July 1984 sentence or final federal discharge. The next court appearance in January was future and not a release date. All existing later proceedings and endpoints must remain separately preserved.
The Nuclear Resister No22, December 16, 1983, original page 3.
Separate 1986 Griffiss sentence admission; forecast not release
Kathleen Rumpf was individually named in the November 19, 1986 Griffiss Air Force Base sentencing report. The action occurred August 6; that action day alone is not entered as a physical jail admission. Rumpf began actually serving the thirty-day term immediately on November 19. The article and current-prisoner directory establish actual continuing custody in this distinct 1986 episode. December 19 for Rumpf and year-end for Berrigan were anticipated releases, not confirmations of physical discharge. No completed thirty-day total is assigned.
The Nuclear Resister No.43, December 12, 1986: Original PDF page 6 (printed page 5); Original PDF page 4 (printed page 3).
Individually documented 1985–1986 custody chronology
The Griffiss Plowshares update explicitly reports Kathleen Rumpf physically released from Alderson Federal Women’s Prison on January 10, 1986 for the Thanksgiving 1983 disarmament case. This is a later actual sentence-era prison stay, distinct from her already recorded initial November 24–December 12, 1983 detention and recognizance release. This paragraph does not give the later first admission or sentencing day, so no continuous 1983–1986 counter or completed nominal term is inferred. Her separately documented November 1986 Griffiss sentence is a different action and remains unchanged.
The Nuclear Resister No. 37, January 20, 1986, original PDF pages [7].
Karl Smith’s first-person account in the March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister names Kathleen Rumpf among seven Capitol rotunda antiwar protesters who refused a $10 bond and were held overnight before arraignment the next afternoon. The printed account calls the arrest January 20 and also places it hours before the State of the Union; the official Reagan Library dates that address January 25, 1983. The precise arrest day is therefore unresolved. The sixty-day sentences imposed on Smith, Rumpf and Frank Carver were suspended, not sixty days actually served.
The Nuclear Resister No.15, March 9, 1983, PDF pages 13.
The petition says Rumpf began a twelve-month property-damage sentence on July 23, 1998; it does not describe this nominal term as completed custody.
The October 1982 report confirms twenty-five days actually served after the September 11 USS Michigan commissioning protest, followed by physical release and dismissal October 7. The separately stated dates span 26 elapsed calendar days; the source-reported 25 days are preserved.
