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Attorney General John N. Mitchell announced yesterday that the U. S. government has indicted anti-war priest Father Philip Berrigan and five other persons on charges of plotting to kidnap presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50 and blow up heating systems in federal buildings...
...Father Daniel Berrigan...
Hoover told the committee, which was considering an appropriation to expand the FBI, that followers of Philip and Daniel Berrigan, the priests now jailed for destroying draft records (TIME, Aug. 24), planned to "kidnap a highly placed Government official. The name of a White House staff member has been mentioned as a possible victim...
William Kunstler and the Rev. William C. Cunningham, the Berrigan brothers' lawyers, contended that Hoover had fabricated a "farfetched spy story" for the purpose of securing his appropriation. If Hoover had evidence to support his charge, said the attorneys, it would be his duty to seek prosecution. Presumably he would do just that...
...Joan Nicholson introduced into evidence Matthew 5:1-12, from Christ's Sermon on the Mount. This was after the government had objected to entering the Holy Bible as evidence, claiming it to be irrelevant. Judge Burke sustained the objection. The beatitudes were not ruled objectionable, however, and Father Berrigan slowly read through the ancient teachings of Christ. In the crowded courtroom, the old words took on new meaning to those who understood how much the government detests the kind of testimony that men of the church like Berrigan can offer about the effects of national policy. Near...