Philip Francis Berrigan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Philip Berrigan was born on October 5, 1923 in Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA as Philip Francis Berrigan. He was married to Elizabeth McAlister. He died on December 6, 2002 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Former Roman Catholic priest who led the draft board raids that galvanized opposition to the Vietnam War in the late 1960s.
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A former Roman Catholic priest who staged one of the most dramatic anti-war protests of the 1960s and was arrested at least 100 times, serving a total of 11 years in prison for his anti-war and anti-nuclear activities. He may be most famous for leading the "Catonsville 9", a group that doused a small bonfire of draft records in homemade napalm at a parking lot on May 17, 1968. Berrigan's brother, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, was a member of the group who wrote The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, a Broadway play in 1971 that was later made into a movie.