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May 9, 1974 · The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.
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- Drama, History
- Gordon Davidson
- 1974-05-09
On October 17, 1967, Fr. Philip Berrigan and Tom Lewis raided the Baltimore City Custom House and poured blood on draft records as part of "The Baltimore Four" (with David Eberhardt and James Mengel) and were out on bail when they burned the records at Catonsville. [1] (
Dec 31, 2014 · Flanders came to a strange tragic end, he moved to a deserted Ghost town in California and eventually shot himself. He also played a priest in the 3rd Exorcist movie. Based on the play by Father Daniel Berrigan, which in turn is based on his real life experience as one of the Cantonsville Nine.
The witnessing of the Catonsville Nine has been evoked in a diverse array of cultural forms that have kept the memory of their protest alive for the last forty years. But the most important and enduring cultural depiction of the Catonsville Nine essentially was rendered by the activists themselves.
Mar 30, 2004 · 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 on fire with napalm.
- Daniel Berrigan
May 19, 2018 · The Catonsville Nine drew inspiration from the Baltimore Four: a protest that was meant to be symbolic, but whose trial revealed a starkly practical consequence.
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Brief Synopsis. Based on trial of Father Daniel Berrigan and eight other Vietnam War protesters who burned draft records, this film examines the motives of war protesters of the time.
