Francis B. Callahan

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Full name:Francis Callahan
Gender:Male
Era:1970s
State:Pennsylvania
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Anti-War Flower City Conspiracy
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Biography

Francis B. Callahan was arrested on September 6, 1970.

Known as Frank Callahan, from Philadelphia, one of the eight Flower City Conspiracy members arrested Sept 6, 1970 for the Rochester draft-board/FBI-office raid. Convicted on all counts and sentenced to seventeen to twenty-two months.

The contemporary Friends Journal report identifies Frank Callahan as a Catholic student at St. Joseph's College who combined a full academic load with full-time work as a radio announcer and received the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Medal. Its February 1971 account places him in custody in Pennsylvania without naming the institution.

Original document 1234, PDF page 19; Original document 1234, PDF page 20; Original document 1234, PDF page 23.

Case

Charges: Raiding and destroying records at Rochester's Selective Service, FBI, and U.S. Attorney offices (September 6, 1970).
Arrested: Sep 6, 1970
Sentenced: Dec 2, 1970
Sentence: Friends Journal, February 1, 1971, reports that the December 2, 1970 court imposed a 12-month sentence in this Rochester draft-record prosecution. This is the nominal sentence, not a finding of actual time served. Source: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1971/HC12-50492.pdf#page=22
Prosecutor: Michael R. Wolford
Judge: Harold P. Burke
Convicted: Yes

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