Biography
Macy Morse was a mother and grandmother from Nashua, NH whose three oldest sons served in the military, one in Vietnam, prompting her conversion to active pacifism. She co-founded the Nashua, NH People Concerned About the War in Vietnam and accumulated more than 60 years of nonviolent activism, at least 10 arrests, and four jail terms — including for splashing blood in Alexander Haig's office in 1981 and for trespassing in Sen. Judd Gregg's office in 2003. She died at age 98.
AVCO arrest date
The AVCO arrest and initial detention occurred July 14, 1983, not July 13. Contemporary UPI reporting identifies the participants and arrest that day; Bauerlein’s own account confirms the date and jailing later that day. Her account describes initial bail release and later detention after conviction, so no final release date or continuous arrest-to-release span is inferred.
Sources: UPI, July 14, 1983; Agnes Bauerlein’s 1987 testimony, reproduced by her son.
Initial AVCO release established
The original Nuclear Resister 19, August 23, 1983, page 1 names Macy Morse and dates the seven defendants' recognizance release July 22. This resolves the initial release only, not subsequent imprisonment. The earlier group estimate is not an individual total. Contemporary report.
Separate December 1983 AVCO detention
The original February 12, 1984 Nuclear Resister, physical page 6 / printed page 5, AVCO Plowshares Guilty, individually names all seven defendants. It reports their December 16, 1983 conviction, sentence, immediate jailing and release later that same day pending appeal. This short post-verdict interval is recorded separately from July 14–22, 1983; the intervening period is not counted as incarceration. Concurrent versus consecutive terms depended on prior records and is not individually assigned without evidence.
The report also distinguishes the December 20 return of John Pendleton and Jean Holladay. That later imprisonment is not assigned to the other five. The contemporaneous report confirms Pendleton's February 6 release but only forecasts Holladay's early-March release, which must not be entered as an exact actual discharge.
Separate 1981 State Department arrest and appeal release
The September 19, 1981 newsletter, original page 3, names Macy Morse, Theresa Guisti and Tom Reed arrested April 16 at the State Department while performing an exorcism outside Secretary Haig’s office. Each received ninety days. Morse and Reed appealed and were actually released July 27 after several weeks in jail. The arrest date is not independently the start of that later several-week imprisonment; no uninterrupted April-to-July total is inferred. This episode is distinct from Morse’s 1983 AVCO cases.
National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter No. 7, September 19, 1981, original pages 1–4
