Word: conners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. sanctuary for John M. O'Conner ended Sunday morning shortly after 7 a.m. when military authorities accompanied by campus police woke O'Conner and placed him under arrest...
After showing O'Conner the warrant for his arrest, the police escorted him from the fourth floor of the M.I.T. Student Center. Neither O'Conner nor the fifteen supporters spending the night at the sanctuary offered any resistance. The Armed Forces Police took O'Conner to Fort Devens in Ayer, Mass...
...Conner had been absent without leave from Fort Bragg, N.C. since September 14. His sanctuary at M.I.T., the longest ever held, began on October...
There was a question earlier as to whether or not O'Conner could attend and perhaps lecture to regular classes at M.I.T. Jerome Wiesner, provost of M.I.T., said Wednesday that the AWOL soldier has "no official status at M.I.T.. He is not a lecturer and not a student. A professor who chooses to invite him to his classes does so on his own judgment...
...Conner said that if he were arrested, he would receive 16 months in jail and a dishonorable discharge from the army. "You think I care?" he said. "This is a dishonorable country...