Even this claim is debatable, as revealed by the observation of many conscientious
objectors during the Vietnam era assigned to work in New Jersey's state mental hospitals at a time they first started using mace to calm violent patients.
It was also used against hunger - striking conscientious
objectors during and after World War I.
Of particular note was the Minnesota Experiment done on imprisoned conscientious
objectors during WWII (the Biology of Human Starvation, Univ MN Press, 1950) and by George Cahill's group in the 1960's (Owens et al, JCI, 1969).
An intellectual imprisoned for his beliefs (a conscientious
objector during the War), the period transforms the man into a philosophizer, a deep thinker and further, an unfaithful lothario.
Never proselytizing and only expressing his religious freedom, Desmond Doss is a conscientious
objector during World War II.
Not exact matches
During World War I he visited the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, three times in the interest of conscientious
objectors.
Despite attempts
during conference to smear as traitors those who, like Siobhain McDonagh and Joan Ryan, called publicly for a leadership contest, the two women ended up looking more like conscientious
objectors.
Plot: The true story of private Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) who joins the army
during WWII but refuses to bear arms due to being a conscientious
objector.
Radegund makrs his second World War Two - set drama, following 1998's The Thin Red Line, and centres on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and a conscientious
objector to the Nazi regime
during the War.