Biography
Samuel Reynier Tyson was a California Quaker, farmer and peace organizer associated with the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He helped the Everyman anti-nuclear campaign and was imprisoned in 1962. His obituary records six months actually served.
The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister identifies Sam Tyson and Jim Higgs as arrested December 21, 1982 while blocking Livermore Laboratory’s main entrance during the Choose Life witness. Both received ten-day sentences and actually served seven days at Santa Rita County Jail. This is separate from Tyson’s 1962 imprisonment and December 1985 overnight detention; the precise later sentence-intake and release days are not printed.
Individually documented 1985–1986 custody chronology
The same Livermore report names Sam Tyson of Modesto with Jim Higgs as arrested at the December 19, 1985 Advent witness, held overnight, and then physically released without charges. The established current Samuel Reynier Tyson profile explicitly records Sam Tyson as his alias; the California peace-organizing context is consistent, without inventing another alias or identity. December 19–20 is one elapsed calendar day of this separate 1985 detention, not an extension of his 1962 Everyman sentence. Higgs’s detention does not authorize creating a new overnight-only profile.
The Nuclear Resister No. 37, January 20, 1986, original PDF pages [4].
The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister identifies Sam Tyson and Jim Higgs as arrested December 21, 1982 while blocking Livermore Laboratory’s main entrance during the Choose Life witness. Both received ten-day sentences and actually served seven days at Santa Rita County Jail. This is separate from Tyson’s 1962 imprisonment and December 1985 overnight detention; the precise later sentence-intake and release days are not printed.
The Nuclear Resister No.15, March 9, 1983, PDF pages 13.
His obituary describes his 1962 imprisonment as maximum-security confinement for giving a press conference announcing the sailing of Everyman II. This is the obituary’s account of the event and custody conditions; it does not resolve the differing boat numbering in contemporary accounts.
