Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berrigan, both in his action and in his Germantown sermon, has indicated the necessity of resistance and some of the numerous means of carrying it out. "There are a hundred ways of non-violent resistance up to now untried or half-tried, or badly tried, but the peace will not be won without such serious and constant and sacrificial and courageous action on the part of a large number of good men and women. The peace will not be won without the moral equivalent of the loss and suffering and separation that the war itself is exacting...
...first document in the packet is a memorandum dated June 23, 1970 from the FBI's Philadelphia office to a Special Agent named Brinkley. The memo directed him to contact Selective Service Headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. -the site of the upcoming trial of the Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other defendants indicted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger '50-to determine if UNDO had engaged in either of the following illegal practices...
Neil McLaughlin and Joseph Wenderoth, two Baltimore, Md., priests under indictment with Philip Berrigan and three others for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger '50 and blow up Washington heating tunnels, spoke to a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of about 60 people last night about their feelings on the war and on poverty in the inner city...
...agents yesterday served subpoenas on three Boston antiwar activists, instructing them to testify before a Harrisburg grand jury which indicted the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan and five other persons for an alleged bombing-kidnap conspiracy last January...
...others indicted with Berrigan in the case are Eqbal Ahmad-a radical antiwar scholar-Sister Elizabeth McAlister, Father Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Schoblic-a former priest-and Father Joseph Wenderoth. They have all denied the charges against them...