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Howard Morland

Released
Date of birth:14. 09. 1942
Age:83
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

Former U.S. Air Force C-141 pilot trained to ferry nuclear weapons who became, in 1979, the journalist who "discovered" and published the Teller-Ulam (H-bomb) design in The Progressive — triggering U.S. v. Progressive Inc., the first prior-restraint case the U.S. brought against an American magazine since the Pentagon Papers. Before the H-bomb article, after a year of graduate work at Dartmouth he became a full-time Clamshell Alliance organizer and co-founded the group in 1976.

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)