Biography
Jim Clune participated in a December 28, 1981 antiwar action at the Pentagon, pouring blood on the River Entrance steps during a Feast of the Innocents witness. A January 17, 1982 contemporary newsletter reports a January 15 trial, a 60 days sentence, and actual confinement at the D.C. Detention Center.
Source: National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter, January 17, 1982, page 1. Custody is historical; an exact release date has not been verified.
Contemporary anti-nuclear custody report
The original update explicitly reports Ann and Jim Clune already released after actually serving 30 and 60 days respectively for their December 28, 1981 Pentagon action. For this profile the reported actual served duration is 60 days, not merely an imposed sentence. The report gives no exact discharge day; the existing actual-duration counter is preserved, not removed or recalculated.
National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter No. 11, April 15, 1982, original pages 2.
The sheriff’s roster reproduced with the April 22, 2011 Hancock Field protest report individually named Jim Clune among the people arrested outside the base in the anti-drone demonstration. The article reports trespassing and obstruction-of-justice charges. It describes handcuffs, a wait, and boarding a bus intended for Justice Center processing; it does not establish an individual jail-admission or release time.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, report 893.
The April 2015 U.S. Mission to the United Nations report names Jim Clune among twenty-two people arrested, processed at the Seventeenth Precinct and released by early afternoon. Its introductory April 27 date conflicts with Art Laffin’s participant account and John LaForge’s separate first-person account, both dating the action April 28. Accounts also differ in their descriptions of summons charges. These differences are preserved rather than silently replacing existing case dates or charges; the planned June 24 hearing is not an eventual court outcome.
Sources: Contemporary report; Contemporary report.
