This, below, is a photo from 1955 of my friend Jenise's dad, peace activist Orin, (3rd from left), going to jail with his brothers, all pacifists, for refusing to register for the draft or serve in the army during the Korean War.
Jenise said her father used to tell her, "One person doing something is better than a thousand people doing nothing." He never gave up on trying to educate and raise people’s consciousness, she said. In his assisted living residence, he put a bumper sticker on his scooter chair reading "Believe in Good."
ORIGINAL caption March 30, 1955 "Off to Jail Again"
Minnesota’s
four Doty brothers surrendered Tuesday to the United States marshal in
St. Paul to begin a second prison term for their defiance of military
conscription. Above, they are leaving the federal courthouse on their
way to Ramsey county jail, accompanied by their father, William (far
left), a Bruno, Minn., farmer, who served a World War I prison term for
his pacifist beliefs. The brothers, all sentenced to two years, are
(left to right Joel, 28, Orin, 27, Paul, 26, and Sid, 25.
Their jailward
journey ironically took them past a United States air force recruiting
sign outside the courthouse. Joel, spokesman for the brothers, handed
reporters a handwritten statement reaffirming their belief that
“conscription and war is wrong” and declaring that “we feel that we are
going back to prison for the second time for the same offense”. --Larry Schreiber, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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