Vietnam: anatomy of a peace protest
Posted: 04 Jan 2013 @ 00:13
Robert Nowell looks at the
motivation of an incident in 1967
The Catonsville Nine: A story of faith and
resistance in the Vietnam era
Shawn Francis Peters
Oxford University Press £22.50
(978-0-19-982785-5)
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Nine anti-war protesters, all of whom happened to be Roman
Catholic, raided the draft-board offices in Catonsville, a suburb
of Baltimore, on 17 May 1968. They seized files that detailed young
men's liab-ility for ...
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