What is the names of the two guys that tried to burn the U.S. Flag during a major league baseball game 1976?

Question

It is the flag burning attempt on 4/25/76

Answer 1

William Errol Thomas and his 11 year old son. I have read that Thomas, who was drunk at the time, and possibly mentally ill, was trying to bring attention to his wife's plight.
She was being held in a mental institution in Missouri, he obviously didn't believe she should be there.

Answer 2

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What is the names of the two guys that tried to burn the U.S. Flag during a major league baseball game 1976?
It is the flag burning attempt on 4/25/76

Answer 3

William Thomas, then 36, and his son, then 11. They were NOT Iranian protestors or Iraqi insurrectionists or anything else you may have heard. They were a couple of Americans, pissed off for some unimportant reason.

Here's a bit from a USA Today retrospective published in 2006, the 30th anniversary, some "where are they now" updates:

Why did these protesters, William Thomas, 36, and his 11-year-old son run onto the field to burn the flag? They were arrested and fined $60. Monday said he never was interested in asking. Attempts to locate Thomas, or to determine whether he's still alive, were unsuccessful.

What happened to the photographer, James Roark, of the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner, who shot the only photo of the incident? Roark, whose photo was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, lost his job, became a night cook in Portland and was beaten and killed outside a restaurant in 1995. He was 49.

And the tattered flag that was soaked with lighter fluid? It's in Monday's possession in a safe-deposit box, surviving the hurricanes near his Vero Beach, Fla., home. He was offered $1 million for the flag several years ago, he said, but rejected the overture.

"The flag is faded, and it's somewhat tattered," Monday said. "It wasn't like it was just bought off the shelf. It wasn't in great shape from the start.

"But the flag is not for sale. What this flag represents, you can't buy."
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Article (with picture): http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2006-04-25-rick-monday_x.htm

Box: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1976/B04250LAN1976.htm

Answer 4

It is only because this country is so great that people like William Thomas and his son get nothing but a small fine. In other countries you could receive as much as a trip in front of a firing squad!

Answer 5

William Thomas, then 36, and his son, then 11. They were NOT Iranian protestors or Iraqi insurrectionists or anything else you may have heard. They were a couple of Americans, pissed off for some unimportant reason.

Answer 6

William Errol Thomas

Answer 7

Abdule Mohammed and Jesus Garcia

Answer 8

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