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...more sensational courts-martial on record, Navy Chaplain Andrew Jensen, a Baptist minister, went on trial for conduct unbecoming an officer, accused of adultery by two women who claimed they had sexual relations with him (TIME, April 3). Last week he was acquitted at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. Prosecutor Ralph Levy had argued that the two Navy wives would never have risked the publicity if their charges were false. "This is too high a price to pay for anything but the truth," he told the court...
Commander Jensen, 43, denied having affairs with the women, and his attorney claimed that they were "sick and conspiring." When the verdict of not guilty was announced, Jensen's wife Kathleen, 43, embraced him and expressed her relief: "Thank the Lord." The chaplain was surrounded and congratulated by other wives at the base who had raised $15,000 for his defense...
...case against the chaplain was compounded by the testimony of Mary Ann Curran, 24, the wife of a flyer. She said that she had had relations with Jensen 17 times between August...
April 1971-after her husband had asked the chaplain for counsel about their marriage. The prosecution produced a note, purportedly from Jensen to Mrs. Curran, which said: "You are everything to me. Please share your love with me forever...
...Gudbranson claimed that she had found out last August that the chaplain was also having an affair with Mrs. Curran. "After agonizing over it for two days, I decided he'd have to be reported," she told the court-martial. Mrs. Gudbranson confessed to her husband, who informed the base executive officer. Naval authorities tried to persuade Jensen to resign his commission, but he refused, protesting his innocence...