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Linden Blake

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
4 Months 0 Days
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Anti-War GI Resistance Presidio 27
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Biography

Linden Blake was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the four AWOL men who initiated the "Presidio 27" stockade sit-down of October 1968 at the Presidio of San Francisco, staged after a guard killed the prisoner Richard Bunch. Charged with mutiny, Blake escaped from the prison hospital in February 1969 — sawing through the window bars over two weeks with a smuggled hacksaw blade and squeezing out — and fled to Canada, escaping conviction on appeal.

Case

Presidio Stockade
Charges: Mutiny — for helping initiate the October 1968 sit-down protest at the Presidio stockade.
Incarcerated: October 1968
Released: February 1969
Sentence: Escaped the Presidio prison hospital in February 1969 and fled into exile in Canada.
Convicted: Charged with mutiny; escaped custody.
Institution State: California