Biography
Anne S. Hall was arrested in January 1989.
The Reverend Anne S. Hall is a Lutheran pastor and longtime campaigner for nuclear disarmament. She became involved in the anti-nuclear movement in the early 1980s after attending a Seattle presentation on the human consequences of nuclear war. Hall later worked with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and the Pacific Life Community in Washington, repeatedly joining vigils and civil-resistance actions at the Trident submarine base at Bangor. She served six days in the Camden County Jail after a January 1989 protest at the Kings Bay Trident base in Georgia and continued organizing against nuclear weapons for decades afterward.
The October 2024 Ground Zero memorial identifies her as Anne Straffin Hall, wife of psychiatrist and disarmament activist David Connolly Hall III, whom she married in 1970. They joined Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility in 1979 and spent decades with Ground Zero, repeatedly taking part in nonviolent actions at Bangor. David died August 12, 2024 on Lopez Island. His conscientious-objector alternative service at Western State Hospital was not imprisonment. Source: https://www.gzcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/October-2024-newsletter-for-website.pdf#page=6
The account individually names Anne S. Hall among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2023-08-07. The reported citation was Pedestrians on roadways (RCW 46.61.250). The account explicitly reports release at the scene or after citation on that date. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The account individually names Anne S. Hall among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2022-08-08. The reported citation was Pedestrian on roadway illegally. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
Leonard Eiger’s May 11, 2014 account individually names Anne Hall, David Hall and Tom Rogers among eight protesters cited for walking on the roadway where prohibited during Ground Zero’s May 10 tea-party protest at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. It separately identifies Anne Hall, David Hall, Victor Edward Digilio and Michael Siptroth as the four who re-entered the roadway, were arrested for obstruction, taken to Kitsap County Jail, booked and released. The jail transport and booking are attributed only to those four, not to every person cited. David is identified as a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility; the existing Hall biographies identify the couple and distinguish this modern psychiatrist from historical namesakes. No whole-day served total, overnight detention or later verdict is inferred. The Nuclear Resister, May 11, 2014.
The May 7, 2011 Mother’s Day action at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor individually named Anne S. Hall among seven people arrested by Washington State Patrol for “walking in a roadway where prohibited.” Each was processed at the scene, given a citation carrying a $56 fine, and released. The report describes roadside processing rather than admission to jail.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, report 890.
The contemporary Bangor Eight trial report individually identifies Anne S. Hall among the August 10, 2015 trespass defendants, all released the same day. On April 1, 2016 Judge David W. Christel found all eight guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 1382 and imposed one year of probation and 100 hours of community service each. These penalties were not imprisonment.
