Joseph Wenderoth

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1970s
State:Maryland
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 2 Months 24 Days
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, member of the Baltimore "Ghetto Priests" working in inner-city parishes. Indicted January 1971 as one of the Harrisburg Seven. Trial April 1972 ended in a hung jury (10-2 for acquittal); government declined to retry.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger and to bomb federal heating tunnels (Harrisburg 7 indictment, 1971; mistrial)
Arrested: Jan 11, 1971
Incarcerated: Jan 11, 1971
Released: Apr 4, 1972
Sentence: Hung jury April 5, 1972; mistrial; no retrial.
Prosecutor: William S. Lynch
Judge: Hon. R. Dixon Herman
Convicted: Hung jury

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