Biography
Phil Shinnick (Philip Kent Shinnick) was an Olympic long jumper — he competed at the 1964 Tokyo Games and set a since-recognized world long-jump record in 1963 — who became an anti-war activist and ally of Black athletes. In 1976 a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania investigating the farmhouse where Patty Hearst had hidden before her 1975 capture (the Symbionese Liberation Army harboring case) subpoenaed him; he refused to provide hair and handwriting samples, was held in contempt, and served about two months at Allenwood federal prison. He later became an acupuncturist.
Contemporary reports distinguish Shinnick’s refusal to provide the FBI with physical samples from Weiner’s refusal to testify. While at Allenwood, Shinnick challenged a prosecutor’s ban on press interviews; Judge William J. Nealon ended that restriction in January 1977.
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