Biography
Raymond Kroll was an Army deserter sheltered by antiwar protesters at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel in 1968. A retrospective account by an FBI agent who participated in the operation describes his arrest at the chapel early on a Sunday morning, without supplying the calendar date. Contemporary Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors lists subsequently identify him as imprisoned at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, in 1969. His exact admission and release dates remain unverified.
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Marsh Chapel source and date limits
David H. Cutcomb’s “Marsh Chapel Sanctuary Event,” The Grapevine, August 2017, pages 16–19, is a retrospective first-person account by an FBI agent involved in the 1968 operation. It names Army deserter Raymond Kroll and Marine Thomas Pratt as the sanctuary subjects, and describes Kroll being arrested early on a Sunday after the writer’s Saturday conversation. It does not supply a calendar arrest date, sentencing outcome or release date, and those are not inferred. The page 18 photograph caption identifies agents Jack Callahan and William Boland escorting “Raymond Knoll”; the body consistently spells the prisoner’s name Kroll. That caption/body discrepancy is retained. The separate page 19 portrait is explicitly the author, David Cutcomb, not Kroll. The account’s political descriptions, disputed-force claims and report of Pratt’s off-premises surrender are attributed to the writer rather than treated as independently adjudicated facts.
