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Daniel Berrigan

DANIEL BERRIGAN

  (1921 - 2016)
Nationality:    USA
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Daniel Berrigan was born on May 9th 1921, in Virginia, MinnesotA. When he left high school he joined a strict Jesuit seminary and spent twenty years studying theology. With his brother Philip and Thomas Merton he formed an inter faith coalition against the Vietnam War. Philip was arrested for non-violent protest and jailed for six years. Daniel went to Hanoi to negotiate the release of three American prisoners. He was branded a traitor by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI. He was prosecuted for burning draft records and sentenced to three years in jail but went on the run; turning up at meetings around the US. eventually he was captured and sent to prison.

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         Trial Of the Catonsville Nine, The
Trial Of the Catonsville Nine, The

Synopsis:
In 1968 two priests - Philip and Daniel Berrigan - together with seven friends removed records from a Selective Service Office and burnt them as a protest against the Vietnam War and napalm bombing

Notes:
Text prepared for New York production by Saul Levitt

1st Produced:
Good Shepherd - Faith Church, NY     1971

Organisations:
Phoenix Theatre

1st Published:
Boston: Beacon Press. Also, Ny: Bantam Books, And Samuel French. (Also Variant Typescript Of New York Production From La Salle Collection.)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
History

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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