Biography
Kevin Sparrock was a Marine reservist, freelance artist and School of Visual Arts student who resisted the Persian Gulf War. Contemporary coverage reported that he faced a wartime desertion charge. Later reports gave his sentence as six months, and Jeff Paterson listed him among those released from Camp Lejeune by January 1992.
The conscientious-objector submission reproduced in the 2001 Cox Commission materials names Kevin Sparrock among twenty-six Gulf War conscientious objectors imprisoned at Camp Lejeune and reports a prosecution request for the death penalty for wartime desertion. A requested punishment is distinct from the eventual disposition; no new admission or release day is established.
A contemporaneous War Resisters League release bulletin, preserved in a discussion entry dated November 3, 1991, individually reports Sparrock’s actual release on October 21. This improves the earlier statement that he had been released by January 1992. His admission is documented only to 1991, and a six-month sentence is not a verified six-month stay, so a complete duration is not calculated.