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Eugene Dixon

Released
Date of birth:c. 1934
Age:92
Gender:Male
Era:1970s
State:New Jersey
Support
Anti-War Camden 28 Catholic Left
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Biography

Eugene "Gene" Dixon was a Camden resident, father of four, and a longtime supervisor for a Philadelphia automotive company, thirty-seven at the Camden 28 indictment. He was active in Catholic religious education and the PTA and was known as a poet. He was severed from the main trial and his charges were dismissed after the May 1973 acquittals. He continued writing poetry and books after retirement.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records (the August 22, 1971 Camden, NJ draft-board raid).
Arrested: August 1971
Incarcerated: August 1971
Sentence: Never tried. Severed from the seventeen-defendant trial; the charges were dismissed after the jury acquitted all seventeen on May 20, 1973. About three weeks of pretrial custody in August-September 1971 under the collective bail strategy; individual release date unresolved.
Convicted: No — severed from the main trial; charges dismissed after the May 20, 1973 acquittals