Lenore Yarger

Released
Gender:Female
Era:2000s
State:Virginia
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Lenore Yarger

Biography

Lenore Yarger is identified as a Catholic Worker in the Nuclear Resister report of an Atlantic Life Community anti-nuclear gathering. The report documents her individual Pentagon protest arrest and release. This profile records that completed custody episode, without asserting a prison sentence. Source: https://www.nukeresister.org/static/nr125/125whitehouse.html

Photo source: Friends Committee on National Legislation. Lenore Yarger, pictured in her speaker biography for the January 18, 2023 conscientious-objection event. Photographer not identified by the source. Original source image reproduced without alteration.

Case

Charges: Protest arrest and citation; specific charge not established in reviewed report
Arrested: Aug 6, 2001
Released: Aug 6, 2001
Sentence: On August 6, Yarger and Chris Schweitzer knelt at the Pentagon with a Hiroshima Never Again banner and prayed. Both were arrested, cited and released. The report appears in Nuclear Resister issue125-126, identified by Ground Zero Center as December 3, 2001; the action year is established through that issue context. No conviction, imposed sentence, detention duration or exact release time is established. Sources: https://www.nukeresister.org/static/nr125/125whitehouse.html ; https://www.gzcenter.org/a-model-for-the-horror-a-reflection/

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