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Buddy Shaw

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 3 Months 0 Days
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Anti-War GI Resistance Presidio 27
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Biography

Buddy Shaw was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco who, on October 14, 1968, staged a sit-down protest against brutal conditions and the killing of a fellow prisoner, Richard Bunch, who had been shot in the back by a guard three days earlier. Singing "We Shall Overcome" and reading out a list of grievances, the men were charged with mutiny, a capital offense. On appeal in June 1970 the mutiny convictions were reduced to willful disobedience, and the defendants were released after about eighteen months.

Case

Presidio Stockade
Charges: Mutiny — for the October 14, 1968 sit-down protest by prisoners at the Presidio stockade (reduced to willful disobedience on appeal, June 1970).
Incarcerated: October 1968
Released: 1970
Sentence: Sentenced (the group's sentences ranged from nine months to sixteen years); released after about eighteen months when the mutiny convictions were reduced on appeal. Verdict as recorded: Yes — court-martialed; mutiny reduced to willful disobedience on appeal.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California