Biography
Peter Niven Kiger was a Quaker pacifist and Committee for Nonviolent Action and War Resisters League organizer. He served about one year in federal prison beginning in 1961 after refusing civilian alternative service as a conscientious objector. On March 24, 1966, he burned his draft card at a New York press conference protesting conscription and the Vietnam War. He was convicted in 1969 and served a three-month federal prison sentence. Exact admission and release dates for both imprisonments remain unresolved.
Separate Pentagon detention reported in 1967
The June 19, 1967 CNVA newsletter names Peter Kiger among four people held in Washington, D.C. after a Pentagon protest, with charges ultimately dropped after approximately two weeks in jail. It does not specify individual entry or discharge dates. This detention is not the earlier alternative-service sentence or the later draft-card sentence. Suspended sentences imposed on other defendants are not treated as his time served.
