Word: coflin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundred students, professors, and clergy from the Divinity School marched down the Freedom Trail yesterday morning to protest "the perversion of our national heritage into a convenant with death." The procession carried a coflin draped with an American flag on which were three hats an American hat, a mortarboard, and a Vietnamese...
...Yale chaplain William Sloane Coflin warned the New Haven community that "we will be lucky if we get through this weekend with only a few broken windows...
...Coflin is one of the organizers of theYale Student-Faculty Monitoring Committee, a group which has attempted to coordinate efforts to keep the demonstration peaceful. A report issued by the group last night charged that "the chance of disorder" at the demonstration was greater than at previous demonstrations in New Haven. The report cited "inadequate" marshaling provisions and the absence of a clear police chain of command...