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Ed Guerard

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:Connecticut
Support
Anti-War Committee for Non-Violent Action
Ed Guerard

Biography

Ed Guerard was a Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist and former Marine who repeatedly took to the water against the Polaris submarines. He was arrested after paddling toward the Abraham Lincoln at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on March 11, 1961, and swam toward the Thomas Edison at New London on June 15, 1961, after which he, Edward Sanders and Eugene Keyes were released within a few hours. He was arrested and briefly detained; no documented prison term followed.

Case

Charges: Interfering with naval vessels — antinuclear Polaris-submarine protests
Arrested: Mar 11, 1961
Sentence: No documented sentence. Arrested after paddling toward the Abraham Lincoln at Portsmouth on March 11, 1961; after swimming toward the Thomas Edison on June 15, 1961 he was released within hours, with Sanders and Keyes.
Convicted: No — no documented prison term