Biography
Murphy Dowouis was a folk singer and Catholic Worker volunteer who refused military induction on grounds of conscience.
Tom Cornell’s account in the September 1965 Catholic Worker names Dowouis among those jailed during the August 9 Assembly of Unrepresented People antiwar protest in Washington, reporting that he initially elected thirty days rather than a fifty-dollar fine. In his own letter in the same issue, Dowouis says that he did not remain to serve the term and paid out. These accounts document an earlier protest detention, separate from his later refusal-of-induction imprisonment; they do not establish thirty actual days or an exact discharge date. September 1965 issue, printed pages 7–8.
