Title
Vietnam protest speech, Catonsville, Maryland, draft
Killer, and other plays
Subject
Berrigan, Daniel--Manuscripts; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States; Speeches; Marginalia (annotations)
Description
Marginalia on front flyleaf of Killer, and other plays by Eugène Ionesco, inscribed by Daniel Berrigan, May 17, 1968. The inscription begins upside down on the title page and runs through two pages and the inside cover. The inscription is the original draft of the speech Berrigan made later that day at the draft board office in Catonsville, Maryland, where, with eight other activists (later known as the Catonsville Nine), he seized and burned draft records in protest of the Vietnam War, setting off a wave of similar protests throughout the country.
21.0 x 14.0 cm.
Creator
Berrigan, Daniel
Source
Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University Library; Chicago, IL, USA 60614; http://library.depaul.edu/Collections/SpecialCollectionArchives.aspx
Publisher
New York : Grove Press
Date
1960
Rights
Please contact the Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library regarding rights and any reproduction.
Relation
Killer, and other plays / by Eugène Ionesco.
Format
TIFF
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
KillerBGN_inside2_20130118
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