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About 120 people gathered in Faneuil Hall in Boston yesterday to hear speeches denouncing the recent indictment of Philip Berrigan and five others on Federal conspiracy charges...
...BERRIGANS. After being convicted for their 1967-68 draft-board raids in Baltimore and Catonsville, Md., the nation's most famous peace criminals. Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, jumped bail and eluded FBI agents for weeks before their capture last year. Despite their confinement in the minimum-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn., the two Roman Catholic priests are still bucking the system. Daniel, 49, a Jesuit and poet, is serving a three-year sentence and working as a dental assistant. Philip, 47, a member of the Josephite fathers and a polemicist, is in for six years and doing...
Hoover charged in Senate testimony that Berrigan and members of the East Coast Conspiracy were conspiring to use kidnapping and sabotage to decelerate the war in Southeast Asia...
Attorney William Kunstler visited Berrigan yesterday at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Conn., where he is serving a six-year sentence for destroying draft records in Maryland. Afterwards, Kunstler issued a statement by Berrigan and said Berrigan viewed the charges as "a colossal blunder" which the government "has stampeded into" because of accusations of a similar plot made last November by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
Seven other persons were named in the indictment Tuesday as co-conspirators but not as defendants. They are: the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, brother of Philip Berrigan; Sister Beverly Bell; Sister Marjorie Ashuman; Thomas Davidson; Paul Mayer, a former priest; and professor William Davidson of Haverford College...