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Kathleen Ridolfi

AKA: Cookie Ridolfi
Released
Date of birth:c. 1948
Age:78
Era:1970s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Anti-War Camden 28 Catholic Left
Kathleen Ridolfi

Biography

Kathleen Mary "Cookie" Ridolfi, a South Philadelphia native, was twenty-three at the Camden 28 indictment. She attended Temple University and Philadelphia Textile College and managed the Resistance Book Store near Temple, and was also named in the Harrisburg conspiracy proceedings. FBI surveillance photographed her with Rosemary Reilly carrying bags during preparations for the raid, and later research identifies both women among the group that entered the draft-board offices on August 22, 1971. Tried as one of the seventeen and acquitted on May 20, 1973. She became an attorney and law professor, and in 2001 founded the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records (the August 22, 1971 Camden, NJ draft-board raid).
Arrested: Aug 22, 1971
Incarcerated: Aug 22, 1971
Sentence: No sentence — acquitted with all seventeen trial defendants on May 20, 1973. About three weeks of pretrial custody in August-September 1971 under the collective bail strategy (most defendants refused release until everyone could make bail); individual release date unresolved.
Convicted: No — acquitted