S. Brian Willson (born July 4, 1941) is an American Vietnam veteran, peace activist, and attorney-at-law. Willson served in the US Air Force from 1966 to 1970, including several months as a combat security officer in Vietnam. He left the Air Force as a Captain. He subsequently became a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans For Peace (Humboldt Bay Chapter 56, California). Upon completion of Law School at American University in Washington, D.C., he became a member of the District of Columbia Bar. As a trained lawyer and writer, he has documented U.S. policy in nearly two dozen countries. Since 1986, Willson has studied on-site policies in a number of countries, among them Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Haiti, Iraq, Israel (and Palestinian territories), Japan, and Korea, both North and South. Documenting the pattern of policies that he says “violate U.S. Constitutional and international laws prohibiting aggression and war crimes,” Willson has been an educator and activist, teaching about the dangers of these policies. He has participated in lengthy fasts, actions of nonviolent civil disobedience, and tax refusal along with voluntary simplicity.
He is best known, though, for what happened on September 1, 1987, when Willson, along with a small group of protesters, sat down on the railroad tracks in front of the Concord Naval Weapons Station in California. A U.S. Navy locomotive ran over Willson, severing both of his legs below the knee.
Brian’s Articles on the 4th Media
Book – Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson
The Sept. 1, 1987 Tragedy at Concord, CA Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) and December 1, 1987 Perspective of the People Invoking the Nuremberg Principles at CNWS
Nuremberg Actions at the Concord Naval Weapons Station
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2017-10-19 Brian Willson, a profile in pacifist courage at the Awareness Film Festival
2012-03-12 Brian Willson “Blood on the Tracks” Presentation
2011-10-28 “Blood on the Tracks”: Brian Willson’s Memoir of Transformation from Vietnam Vet to Radical Pacifist
2007-09-01 Peace activist Brian Willson returns to the tracks where he lost his legs
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Drone Assassination Program
Drone Activists
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