When asked in 2009 by “America,” a national Catholic magazine, whether he had any regrets, Berrigan replied: “I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville.”īerrigan grew up in Syracuse, New York, with his parents and five brothers. 9, 1968 to prison terms ranging from two to 3.5 years.īerrigan wrote about the courtroom experience in 1970 in a one-act play, “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine,” which was later made into a movie. property and interfering with the Selective Service Act of 1967. The Catonsville Nine, as they came to be known, were convicted on federal charges accusing them of destroying U.S.
The group took the files outside and burned them in garbage cans. The Berrigan brothers entered a draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, with seven other activists and removed records of young men about to be shipped off to Vietnam. Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s. He was 94.īerrigan died after a “long illness” at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.īerrigan and his younger brother, the Rev. in the 1960s after being imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the war, died Saturday.
The Roman Catholic priest, writer and poet, who became a household name in the U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) - His defiant protests helped shape Americans’ opposition to the Vietnam War.
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