Biography
Lawrence Rosebaugh was an Oblate priest born in Appleton, Wisconsin, ordained 1963; co-founder of a Catholic Worker house in Milwaukee when he joined the September 24, 1968 Milwaukee 14 raid that burned ~10,000 Selective Service files. Served 14 months in Wisconsin state prison (1969-70). Spent the rest of his life as a missionary among the poor in Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala. Murdered by armed robbers on a rural highway in northern Guatemala on May 18, 2009.
1983 Fort Benning custody clarified
Nuclear Resister 19, August 23, 1983, printed page 2, records earlier base detentions and releases, then dates FBI arrest of Larry Rosebaugh, Roy Bourgeois and Linda Ventimiglia August 12. They refused bail agreements and remained in county jail. The September 30 follow-up, printed page 4, reports conviction and fifteen-month sentences for Rosebaugh and Ventimiglia while still awaiting federal-prison transfers. Scheduled roster release dates are not proof of actual discharge. Rosebaugh's separate Pantex and Milwaukee cases remain unchanged.
Official federal endpoint
The BOP inmate locator, queried October 12, 2026 with register 11386-077, returned LARRY ROSEBAUGH, not in BOP custody as of September 25, 1984. The March 28, 1984 roster independently identifies Larry with that register. The earlier 81020-020 roster number and the full-name Lawrence Rosebaugh search returned no match; absence alone does not disprove historical custody. The federal endpoint does not establish the end of supervision or another jurisdiction's custody.
Separate February 1985 missile-silo vigil detention
The report individually names Art Laffin, Father Larry Rosebaugh and Patrick Mulvehill as arrested for state trespass after crossing the field fence near the N-5 silo during a February 18, 1985 support vigil. All three remained in jail pending a March 1 hearing, unlike Miriam Olsen and Bobbie Plante, who posted bond. This establishes a distinct actual multi-night 1985 custody episode for Lawrence Rosebaugh, not an extension of a previous Pantex, Fort Benning, Trident Nein or 1983 workhouse stay. The future hearing is not actual release, and no final duration is inferred. Larry is the source’s familiar name for the existing Lawrence Rosebaugh; no new person is created.
The Nuclear Resister No.29, February 27, 1985, original PDF pages 2,4,6.
Contemporary1985 custody follow-up
The April16 follow-up explicitly says this individually named supporter remained jailed and fasted eleven days before the March1,1985 bench trial, which ended in conviction and a time-served sentence. The issue lists the person recently released. Eleven is actual reported confinement, not the nominal sentence or a duration copied from another case. The hearing/time-served date is not automatically treated as the exact physical-release day.
The September23,1983 Criterion contemporaneous report individually names Larry Rosebaugh, Linda Ventimiglia and Roy Bourgeois and reports U.S.District Judge Robert Elliott imposed fifteen months on each after the six-hour FortBenning trial on September14,1983. This supplies the sentencing day for the existing1983 episode; the imposed term does not establish actual admission, physical release or completed service.
