Biography
Russell F. Ford was a Wesleyan University draft-registration resister prosecuted in Connecticut. Contemporary reports establish detention after his August10,1982 arraignment and release on bond September14. He later received a time-served sentence June6,1983, not a new prison term beginning at sentencing. His exact initial arrest day and an identified reusable portrait remain unresolved.
Pretrial detention and time-served sentencing separated
The original Torch printed6 and contemporary UPI release report agree on August10 initial detention and September14,1982 bond release; UPI was reviewed through indexed text after direct retrieval failed. The full original June7,1983 Gazette and Becker's individual case table distinguish June6 time-served sentencing from new incarceration. Exact separate arrest day and a reusable identified portrait remain unknown.
Separate 1983 episode and contemporary limits
The June 20, 1983 Groton report names Russ Ford, matching this profile’s recorded alias and Connecticut anti-war context, with Liz Davidson and Michael Wehle at the Underwater Systems Laboratory. It states Russ and Liz pleaded no contest, received ten-day sentences and were released June 24; Michael was separately released on a promise to appear. The four elapsed days June 20–24 are initial actual custody, not ten actual days or a continuation of Ford’s 1982 draft-registration imprisonment. No exact sentencing day is printed.
