Jean Toche (1932-2018) was a Belgian-American abstract artist and poet involved in New York's radical political art scene.
[5][7] The three were ultimately sentenced to a fine of $100 each or 30 days in jail, under a New York State Law that forbade desecrating the flag.
[8][9] In 1974 Toche was arrested by the FBI and charged with mailing a kidnapping threat to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[10][11] The threat, in the form of a flyer, called for the kidnapping of "museum trustees, directors, administrators, curators and benefactors".
[11] Toche's flyers were in reposonse to the arrest of Tony Shafrazi, who had spray-painted “KILL LIES ALL” on Picasso's Guernica, itself an act of protest against William Calley, who had participated in the My Lai massacre.