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Roy Keith

Era:1970s
State:Kentucky
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Biography

RoyKeith was one of the Stearns coal strikers jailed amid the October1977 JustusMine picket repression. The December2 report says he was freed at doctors’ insistence with a possible brain injury after state troopers beat him while handcuffed. The medical diagnosis and abuse are reported allegations; exact arrest, physical discharge and total actual detention are unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/workersvanguard/1977/0184_02_12_1977.pdf#page=2

Case

Charges: Prosecution during Stearns JustusMine strike and enforcement of picketing restrictions; individual statutory count unprinted.
Sentence: Actually jailed and freed for medical reasons by December2,1977; no exact full duration or individual imposed term established.