Elsie, who died in 1973, was a middle school science teacher in Norwalk and founded an environmental club in the late 1960s.īoth his mother and grandparents, Henry and Anita Willcox, were subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and their careers were ruined as a result. Roger, a community organizer specializing in co-ops, was a sailor. Willcox's parents were both politically active. Willcox was adopted by Roger and Elsie Willcox of South Norwalk, Connecticut. Sharpe, a member of the U.S Ski team at the time, was unmarried and gave the baby up for adoption at the urging of her family. Willcox was born to Eleanor Sharpe of Woodstock, Vermont. In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Guardian for his environmental activism. In 2013, he was aboard the MV Arctic Sunrise when the Russian military boarded it and arrested him and 30 other activists in what became known as the " Arctic 30." He was detained for two months before being released. He was on board as captain of the Rainbow Warrior when it was bombed and sunk by the DGSE (French intelligence service) in New Zealand in 1985. Peter Willcox (born March 6, 1953) is an American sea captain best known for his activism with the environmental organization Greenpeace.
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