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The Catonsville Nine were nine Catholic activists who burned draft files to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, they took 378 draft files from the draft board office in Catonsville, Maryland, and burned them in the parking lot.
31 dic 2014 · When the Catonsville Nine, especially the Berrigan Brothers, burned some draft files with homemade napalm in 1968 to protest the war, the reactions ranged from outrage and ridicule to applause and acclaim for the two priest brothers.
An aspiring activist in Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin hopes to march and display a banner for the Catonsville Nine, while a bomber pilot in Don DeLillo’s Underworld lumps the activists together with the Vietcong. (For him, they are more or less the same thing—the enemy.)
The Catonsville Nine were tried in federal court in Baltimore in October 1968. Large demonstrations occurred outside the Federal Courthouse on Calvert Street during the trial. The nine were found guilty of destruction of U.S. property and were sentenced to a total of 18 years’ jail.
30 mar 2004 · On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them on fire with napalm.
- Daniel Berrigan
9 mag 1974 · The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.
The facts of the case are perhaps known by now. “An F.B.I. agent estimated that at least 600 individual draft files were in the two huge wire baskets carried by nine defendants from local board number 33 in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, and set afire in a parking lot” (A. P. Wire).
