Robert Michener

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Kansas
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Robert Michener was a nineteen-year-old Quaker and Drake University student sentenced to ten years in federal prison in 1951 for refusing to be drafted on religious grounds.

Case

Charges: Refusing induction into the armed forces (conscientious objection on religious grounds).
Sentence: Ten years in federal prison. Verdict as recorded: Convicted in federal court, Topeka, Kansas.
Convicted: Yes