Biography
Sunshine Appleby was jailed for ten days after a May 22, 1984 anti-nuclear protest at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut. Appleby threw blood on the steps of the administration building in opposition to Trident submarine production, was held on $100 bond, and was released when the charges were dropped.
Karl Smith’s first-person account in the March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister names Sunshine Appleby among seven Capitol rotunda antiwar protesters who refused a $10 bond and were held overnight before arraignment the next afternoon. The printed account calls the arrest January 20 and also places it hours before the State of the Union; the official Reagan Library dates that address January 25, 1983. The precise arrest day is therefore unresolved. The sixty-day sentences imposed on Smith, Rumpf and Frank Carver were suspended, not sixty days actually served.
Source: Nuclear Resister26, PDF3/printed2. Ten days of actual detention are explicit. No release day calculated from this total.
Separate actual February 1985 Site 300 sentence admission
The Site 300 update individually states Sunshine Appleby began serving her sentence February 12, 1985 after trespass at the Livermore Laboratory testing range near Tracy. Six months were imposed, five suspended. The report only forecasts March 1 release; no actual discharge or completed one-month total is established. This is distinct from her 1983 Pentagon and 1984 Baltimore and Electric Boat custody episodes. The December reclamation context does not establish her exact arrest day.
The Nuclear Resister No.29, February 27, 1985, original PDF pages 9.
Individually documented 1985–1986 custody chronology
The January 3, 1986 Nevada Test Site report individually identifies Sunshine Appleby among the three noncooperators who actually served a five-day jail sentence before release. This completed five-day stay is separate from the other defendants released on citation that day and from this person’s earlier protest cases. January 3 is the arrest date; the report does not expressly print the subsequent individual admission or physical-release day, so five days are preserved as actual documented service without back-calculating endpoints. The other arrestees’ anticipated fines or five-to-six-day sentences are not assigned to this person.
Sunshine Appleby was arrested at the Livermore Site 300 gate on December 13, 1985 after refusing to move during an Advent anti-nuclear witness. Unlike Eldred Schneider, who was released pending arraignment, she refused a citation and was actually jailed for five days. Her not-guilty plea and April trial were separate proceedings, not an actual final discharge date. This December 1985 stay is distinct from her February 1985 Site 300 sentence and January 1986 Nevada imprisonment; no exact release day is back-calculated.
The Nuclear Resister No. 37, January 20, 1986, original PDF pages [4].
Karl Smith’s first-person account in the March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister names Sunshine Appleby among seven Capitol rotunda antiwar protesters who refused a $10 bond and were held overnight before arraignment the next afternoon. The printed account calls the arrest January 20 and also places it hours before the State of the Union; the official Reagan Library dates that address January 25, 1983. The precise arrest day is therefore unresolved. The sixty-day sentences imposed on Smith, Rumpf and Frank Carver were suspended, not sixty days actually served.
The Nuclear Resister No.15, March 9, 1983, PDF pages 13.
Sandia September 24, 1984 arrest and actual brief jail stay, followed by release before November trial. Release is YEAR 1984 only; the source does not specify an exact first discharge day.
After the February 18 hung jury in the December 28, 1981 Concord Naval Weapons Station trespass prosecution, charges were dropped April 16, 1982. The dismissal is a case outcome, not a physical-release endpoint.
