Howard Lawrence Mechanic was an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis who went into hiding for 28 years after being accused of throwing a cherry bomb into the university's ROTC building during a Vietman War protests in May 1970. Mechanic denies throwing the bomb. No one was injured, but Mechanic was charged under the Civil Obedience Act of 1968 and sentenced to five years in prison. Wikipedia
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