Research Catalog

Title

The trial of the Catonsville Nine / Daniel Berrigan.

Author

Berrigan, Daniel

Publication

• Boston : Beacon Press, [1970]
• ©1970

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Details

Description

xi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 122 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm

Summary

Composed directly from the data of the trial record. Sentenced to three years in jail after he destroyed government property as part of an anti-war protest in 1968, Daniel Berrigan fled justice but later turned himself in. In 'The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Berrigan addresses the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality.

Subject

• Berrigan, Philip > Drama
• Berrigan, Philip
• 1961-1975
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest movements > Drama
• Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Drama
• Political crimes and offenses > Drama
• Legal drama, American
• Legal drama, American
• Political crimes and offenses
• Protest movements
• Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Drama
• Vietnamkriget 1957-1975
• Catonsville (Md.) > Drama
• Baltimore (Md.) > Drama
• Maryland > Baltimore
• Maryland > Catonsville

Genre/Form

• Plays (Performed Works)
• scripts (documents)
• Historical drama
• Drama
• Historical drama.
• Théâtre historique.

Contents

The day of the jury of peers -- The day of the facts of the case -- The day of the nine defendants -- The day of summation -- The day of verdict -- First afterword, more timely than ever : giving a voice to a Jesuit education for peace and justice / by James Marsh -- Second afterword, then and now : notes on the historical significance of The trial of the Catonsville Nine / by Robin Andersen.

ISBN

• 0807005487
• 9780807005484
• 0807005495
• 9780807005491

LCCN

79101319

OCLC

• ocm00070108
• 70108
• SCSB-155127

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library