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Jane Anne Kennedy

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Full name:Jane Kennedy
Gender:Female
Era:1960s
State:Michigan
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Anti-War Beaver 55
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Biography

A nurse and nursing educator with a master's degree, the oldest Beaver 55 member. She took part in scrambling magnetic research tapes at Dow Chemical (Midland, Michigan) and, a week later, destroying draft files in Indianapolis. Convicted on all four counts in the Indianapolis case (four years, reduced to three) and served a separate Michigan sentence for the Dow action; the opinion notes she expressed no remorse. She was released from the federal women's prison at Alderson, West Virginia in the mid-1970s.

Case

Charges: Destruction of Selective Service records (the October 31, 1969 Indianapolis raid) — United States v. Donner.
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: Convicted; two of the eight received probation.
Convicted: Yes