Biography
Steve Gilbert was an antiwar Army organizer and a founder of the Fort Knox underground newspaper FTA. According to contemporary Liberation News Service reporting reprinted in The Black Panther, he refused deployment to Korea, went AWOL to organize against the war, and voluntarily returned to military authorities early in October 1969. He was sent to Fort Lewis and confined in its stockade. The report describes a failed October 24 attempt to send him to Korea under guard and states that he remained in the Fort Lewis stockade. No final court-martial outcome, physical release or complete duration is established here.
Steve Gilbert was an antiwar Army organizer and a founder of the Fort Knox underground newspaper FTA. According to contemporary Liberation News Service reporting reprinted in The Black Panther, he refused deployment to Korea, went AWOL to organize against the war, and voluntarily returned to military authorities early in October 1969. He was sent to Fort Lewis and confined in its stockade. The report describes a failed October 24 attempt to send him to Korea under guard and states that he remained in the Fort Lewis stockade. No final court-martial outcome, physical release or complete duration is established here. Pretrial military confinement. The report states that Gilbert voluntarily returned to Army authorities early in October 1969, was sent to Fort Lewis and placed in the stockade, and remained confined after an October 24 attempted deployment. It supplies no adjudicated sentence, final release or full duration.
The Black Panther, November 15, 1969, PDF page 12 / printedpage 13, Liberation News Service report.
