We end today's show with the Academy Award-winning actor, director
and writer Tim Robbins. Tim is involved in a new production of Father
Daniel Berrigan's acclaimed play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.
The play centers on the events of May 17th, 1968, when nine Catholic
peace activists, including Father Daniel Berrigan and his brother,
the late Father Philip Berrigan, entered a draft board in
Catonsville, Maryland, and removed draft files of young men who were
about to be sent to Vietnam. They took those files outside and burned
them with homemade napalm. They were arrested and, in a highly
publicize trial that galvanized the antiwar movement, sentenced to prison.
At his trial, Father Daniel Berrigan said, quote, "Our apologies good
friends for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead
of children."
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