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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Berrigan, Daniel
Andersen, Robin
Marsh, James L.

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 0823223302
ISBN13: 9780823223305
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 30 2004
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm. The Catholic activists involved in this protest against the war included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilty of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail. Dan Berrigan fled but later turned himself in.

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine became a powerful expression of the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality. Drawing on court transcripts, Berrigan wrote a dramatic account

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