Guy Chichester

Released
Date of birth:11. 02. 1935
Date of death:09. 02. 2009
Age:73† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1970s
State:New Hampshire
Time Imprisoned:
2 Days
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Clamshell Alliance
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Biography

Navy veteran who moved from Long Island to Rye, NH, was a co-founder of the Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and a perennial figure in New England anti-nuclear and environmental organizing. Later served as president of the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League. In a celebrated act of civil disobedience he sawed down a Seabrook Station emergency-warning siren pole, was charged with criminal mischief (a Class B felony), and was acquitted by jury.

Case

Charges: Criminal trespass (April 30 – May 1, 1977 mass occupation of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site, NH)
Arrested: Apr 29, 1977
Incarcerated: Apr 29, 1977
Released: May 1977
Sentence: Held without bail in NH National Guard armory ~13 days; criminal trespass charges most dismissed.
Convicted: Misdemeanor (most charges later dismissed)

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