Robert Edward Johnson

AKA: Bob Johnson
Released
Gender:Male
Era:1970s
State:Mississippi
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Biography

Robert Edward Johnson was a Black civil-rights organizer in Grenada, Mississippi, and a conscientious objector during the Vietnam era. He was imprisoned after failing to report to a reassigned compulsory hospital-service job.

Case

Charges: Failure to obey a Selective Service order to perform civilian alternative service, 50 U.S.C. App. section462
Sentence: The conviction concerned failure to report for reassigned hospital work on January31,1969. A five-year sentence was appealed; the Fifth Circuit affirmed the conviction on March20,1973 and discussed sentence reconsideration. VVAW subsequently reported actual confinement at Eglin followed by Pensacola county jail while sentence-reduction efforts remained pending. The five-year sentence is not actual time served. Admission, release, sentencing date and total custody duration remain unknown.

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