Biography
Walter Pawlowski was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the leaders of the "Presidio 27" stockade protest of October 14, 1968, at the Presidio of San Francisco. During the sit-down — sparked by a guard's killing of the prisoner Richard Bunch — Pawlowski read aloud the protesters' list of grievances. Charged with mutiny, a potential capital offense, he escaped from the stockade on Christmas Eve 1968 together with Keith Mather and fled to Canada.
Photo: U.S. Army photograph, 14 October 1968, via Wikimedia Commons. Original-image crop; identified by the source (standing soldier reading the demands). Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APresidio_27_Sit-Down_14Oct1968_-_Image_2.jpg . Source labels this a U.S. Army public-domain photograph; embedded scan metadata credits Steve Rees and says all rights reserved. Rights conflict retained; educational/memorial rationale, not a confirmed open-license claim.
