Marshall Ledbetter, Jr. (June 10, 1969 – July 14, 2003) was an American photographer, psychedelics enthusiast, iconoclast,[citation needed] and unconventional protester.
[1] He told them that he wanted (among other things) a large Gumby's pizza, a case of beer and $100 worth of Chinese food.
As the SWAT team took Ledbetter out of the building, Todd said, "I told Larry Campbell [Leon County Sheriff] to get that liquor bottle out of his hand before the press got in to see us.
"[2]Of the many apocryphal stories surrounding Ledbetter's standoff, perhaps none is more famous than the request for donuts contained in his demand note.
After the standoff, Marshall was taken to the Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee where he was eventually forced by court order to accept anti-psychotic drug treatment.
On the Florida State campus that fall (especially among the members of student government party the Monarchy Party), Marshall became something of a folk hero, with a few souls wearing homemade "Free Marshall Ledbetter Now" T-shirts (although an account from one FSU alumna states that they were really FMLN shirts and buttons borrowed from a local left-wing group supporting El Salvador's Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional).