Harold H. Thompson (anarchist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish-American anarchist activist and prisoner.
Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1942
Place of Birth: Huntington, West Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 11-Oct-2008
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Harold H. Thompson (anarchist)
- Harold H.
- Thompson (April 9, 1942 in Huntington, West Virginia – October 11, 2008) was an Irish-American anarchist activist and prisoner.Thompson was of Irish extraction, his parents having emigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century and settled in Huntington, West Virginia.
- Raised in a politicized environment, Thompson acquired an interest in anarchism at an early age, having heard the political debates of his father and his father's friends.
- He joined the Army and served in Vietnam War.
- He was discharged for being wounded, and became an anti-war and anarchist activist associated with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the 1960s and 1970s.
- He began a campaign of expropriation, and had several encounters with law enforcement.In 1978 Walter Douglas Crawley killed the mother of Thompson's eldest son.
- Crawley was arrested and jailed for the murder but was soon released after serving as a jail house informant.
- In October 1979 Crawley was shot whilst drinking in a bar, Thompson was prosecuted and found guilty of murder and robbery in 1979.He was condemned to life imprisonment with an additional fifty years, a sentence exacerbated by a failed escape attempt in 1986 which led to another thirty-one years added to his sentence for charges including the attempted murder of three prison officers.
- Shortly afterwards, he was moved to a maximum security prison where he was subjected to solitary confinement until July 1993.
- Whilst a prisoner, Thompson studied law, assisting other inmates in appeals and challenges, and also began writing anarchist literature and poetry.On October 11, 2008, Harold H.
- Thompson suffered a heart attack, dying in West Tennessee State Penitentiary at sixty-six years of age.
- In accordance with his final request, Thompson's ashes were scattered over the waters of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland by six of his anarchist friends.
- A frequent correspondent, Sean Matthews, oversaw the event.
- When asked to comment on Thompson's criminal history, Matthews described it as "no worse than the wage slavery that underpins our economy".
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