- William Buwalda
William Buwalda was a United States
soldier (private first-class), who attended a speech byanarchist Emma Goldman at Walton's Pavilion inSan Francisco , in uniform, onApril 26 ,1908 . [ [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/timeline/index.html "Timeline: Anarchism and Emma Goldman" @PBS.org as retrieved on December 30] , 2006.] ] At the end of the event, he shook her hand, and wascourt-martial ed for it in violation of the 62nd Article of War, serving three years'hard labour atAlcatraz . Upon his release, he returned hismedal s and became an anarchist.References
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