Sara Wayward

Sara Wayward was an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War, previously enrolled at Regal University in Brooklyn. She was well known to both campus security and the NYPD as a "radical" due to her vocal opposition to the war in Vietnam, in turn being the target of James Edwards' undercover investigation in 1968.

While her family tried to stay out of much of the political movements of the time, Sara was drawn to joining the Civil Rights Movement, and by high school, had taken part in several rallies and protests. One such occasion included hitchhiking to Washington D.C. to take part in the March on Washington. Wayward applied to Regal University with a letter she wrote as a semi-response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

Not long after enrollment, Wayward met fellow activists Eric Scott and George Milton, quickly joining their anti-Vietnam protests and hippie lifestyle, as well as on on/off relationship with Milton. In the summer of 1966, Milton disappeared without any prior knowledge, leading Wayward to search the city of New York for him - only to find a newspaper seven months later declaring Milton killed in action in Vietnam. Wayward dropped out of the university and became even more vocal in her beliefs, causing the investigation that led to the Noah Park Incident in 1968.