The Buffalo Nine
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"The Buffalo Nine" were individuals arrested together by Federal marshalls and FBI agents on August 19, 1968 at the Unitarian Universalist Church (Buffalo, N.Y.). They were:
Bruce Cline, organizer, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union
Ray Malak, Chairman of the Research Action Committee of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Vietnam veteran
Thomas O'Connell, Vietnam veteran
Bruce Beyer, organizer, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union
James McGlynn, Vietnam veteran
William Berry, organizer, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union
Carl Kroneberg, organizer, Peace and Freedom Party
Jerry Gross, Chairman of Youth Against War and Fascism (YAWF) and Martin Sostre Defense Committee
William Yates, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
"What started out as a peacheful, non-violent demonstration against the war and the Selective Service System, ended in a violent fist-swinging melee. I maintain to this day that this was precisely what the government had in mind when it sent thirty-two police officers to arrest two draft resisters..." (Bruce Beyer)
source: The Spectrum, vol 28 No. 18 State University of New York at Buffalo 5 October, 1977
An article appeared in the Magazine Section of the Buffalo Evening News, December 18, 1988 with extensive detail about the case and also covering the 20-year reunion, in Buffalo, of someof the defendants.
