Dorothy Eber

Date of birth:08. 03. 1956
Age:70
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Missouri
Support
Anti-Militarism Anti-War
Dorothy Eber

Biography

Plowshares peace activist named as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States. Plowshares activists are arrested for symbolic acts of nuclear-disarmament protest at U.S. military and weapons-production facilities.

Case

FCI Lexington
Charges: Entering a Minuteman nuclear missile installation in Missouri, in the Missouri Peace Planting campaign against the silos.
Sentence: Two years in federal prison. Contemporary syndicated coverage describes her as a 64-year-old anti-nuclear activist from suburban Chicago who had gone through a fence into a nuclear missile installation, and places her at the federal prison at Lexington, Kentucky by early February 1989. The federal docket, arrest date, conviction date and statutory counts are not yet established.
Convicted: Yes — serving a two-year federal sentence as of early February 1989.
Institution State: Kentucky

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