William Buwalda

William Buwalda

William Buwalda was a United States soldier (private first-class), who attended a speech by anarchist Emma Goldman at Walton's Pavilion in San Francisco, in uniform, on April 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 was court-martialed for it in violation of the 62nd Article of War, serving three years' hard labour at Alcatraz. Upon his release, he returned his medals and became an anarchist.

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