Biography
Laurie Raymond was an anti-nuclear activist facing a separate August 3, 1976 trial over cutting a fence at the Trident submarine base. Whitnack’s letter reports Raymond seized in the Seattle courtroom on July 20 while protesting Whitnack’s jailing, dragged into a holding tank and charged with assault on a marshal. Attorney John Ziegler secured personal-recognizance release that night. No conviction, three-year sentence, or custody in the separate fence case is established. Source: https://radicalarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dragon-barc-10.pdf#page=37
Matt Dundas’s historical account identifies Laurie Raymond, Jo Maynes and Alice Ray-Keil as arrested after repeatedly cutting the Trident-base fence on May 17, 1976. At their August trial, Judge Donald Voorhees imposed thirty-day jail sentences for damaging government property. The account does not establish Raymond’s exact sentence-service dates. This fence prosecution was separate from her July 20 courtroom holding-tank detention. The Nuclear Resister, contemporary source report 455.
