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The Catonsville Nine were tried in federal court October 5–9, 1968, defended by William Kunstler. They were found guilty of destruction of U.S. property, destruction of Selective Service files, and interference with the Selective Service Act of 1967. [7]
- 1968
- Philip Berrigan, George Mische
- 9
May 9, 1974 · With Gwen Arner, Ed Flanders, Barton Heyman, Mary Jackson. The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.
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- Drama, History
- Gordon Davidson
- 1974-05-09
May 19, 2018 · The nine — Father Berrigan, his brother Philip Berrigan, David Darst, John Hogan, Tom Lewis, Marjorie Melville, Thomas Melville, George Mische and Mary Moylan — were each sentenced to two to...
Feb 8, 2019 · A few years later, after a trial had found all nine guilty and most had served a few years in prison ( Mary Moylan remained on the run until 1978), Berrigan turned the ordeal into a play, “The...
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The Catonsville Nine were tried in federal court in Baltimore in October 1968. Large demonstrations occurred outside the Federal Courthouse on Calvert Street during the trial. The nine were found guilty of destruction of U.S. property and were sentenced to a total of 18 years’ jail.
On May 17, 1968, seven men and two women burst into the Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland, pushing past startled clerks to grab hundreds of 1A draft records and stuffing them into wire incinerator baskets. The group then flee to the parking lot, where they set the records on fire with homemade napalm.
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine PG 1972 1h 25m Drama List Reviews Daniel Berrigan (Ed Flanders) and others stand trial for burning Catonsville, Md., draft-board records in 1968.
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