Word: eberhardt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rectory, poking into closets ("Father Phil, are you there?"), peering under beds ("Father Dan, are you there?"). One passageway was locked shut, and an agent barked an order to break the door down. Minutes later, in a closet, they found Fugitive Priest Philip Berrigan, 46, and Poet Dave Eberhardt, 28, both overdue to begin federal prison sentences for destroying Selective Service files. The two were marched off in handcuffs. The agents were unable to find Philip's elder brother and fellow fugitive, Poet-Priest Daniel Berrigan...
...Cornell over the pre-Passover weekend, he spoke to some 10,000 students gathered for an "America Is Hard to Find" festival. Apparently because federal agents wanted to avoid a student riot, he was allowed to slip away. The following Tuesday his brother was to appear with Dave Eberhardt at an "Up from Under" rally at St. Gregory the Great-until the FBI stepped in. Philip Berrigan had made a considerable sacrifice for that unrealized moment of final resistance: by failing to report as scheduled, he had seriously jeopardized his chances of a reduction of sentence suggested by an appellate...