Biography
John Honeck was an SOA Watch participant who crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / WHINSEC. Sentenced to 3 months.
Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
Birth- and death-date sources
- SOA Watch prisoners-of-conscience chronology — identifies John Honeck of Hamlin, New York, as 39 among the November 1999 Fort Benning defendants, supporting 1960 as his birth year.
- Westside News obituary, October 22, 2015 — identifies the same Hamlin social-justice activist and reports that he died October 20, 2015, at age 55.
An April 3, 2015 Nuclear Resister report individually names John Honeck among four defendants whose charges Judge Robert Jokl dismissed “in the interest of justice” after motions in DeWitt Town Court. It explicitly identifies the four as among 31 people arrested during the April 28, 2013 nonviolent die-in at Hancock Air National Guard Base. It reports trespass, two counts of disorderly conduct, and misdemeanor obstruction of government administration; attorneys Jonathan Wallace, Kathy Manley and Kim Zimmer presented motions for the four. The publication date is not used as an exact dismissal day. The report supplies no individual jail admission, release day or completed custody duration. Contemporary report.
