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.[1] At the end of the event, he shook her hand, and was court-martialed for it in violation of the 62nd Article of War, and was sentenced to three years' hard labour at Alcatraz. Upon his release, he returned his medals and became an anarchist.
However, as Goldman relates on p. 444 of her autobiography, Living My Life, Buwalda was pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt after serving only 10 months in prison.