Episode 7: Radical Priests v. the FBI
The United States v. The Harrisburg Seven
In 1970, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover stunned Congress when he announced that anti-war activists planned to kidnap Henry Kissinger and bomb Washington, D.C. But when the Justice Department pursued these activists, a group that came to be known as the Harrisburg Seven, on conspiracy charges, shocking revelations about the FBI's main witness made many wonder if the plot had ever been real to begin with...
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Arvin Alaigh, “Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision,” Dissent, Spring 2023.
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Hillel Arnold, Draft Board Raids.
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Archdiocese of Baltimore, “Directory of Priests with Faculties in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.”
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Frida Berrigan, “How do you tell the kids that Grandma is in jail for resisting nuclear weapons?” Waging Nonviolence, April 6, 2018.
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Homer Bigart, “Ex-Convict is Key Witness in Plot Trial,” New York Times, February 22, 1972.
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Jack Nelson and Ronald J. Ostrow, The FBI and the Berrigans: The Making of a Conspiracy (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972).
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“History,” Jonah House.
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James T. Keane, “Lessons from Daniel Berrigan’s F.B.I. evasion,” America, February 1, 2016.
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Art Laffin, “A History of the Plowshares Movement,” speech, October 22, 2019,
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Jon Landau, “Paul Simon: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, July 20, 1972.
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Daniel Lewis, “Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94,” New York Times, April 30, 2016.
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Daniel Lewis, “Philip Berrigan, Former Priest and Peace Advocate in the Vietnam War Era, Dies at 79," New York Times, December 8, 2002.
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“The Nation: The Berrigans: Conspiracy and Conscience,” Time, January 25, 1971.
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Enid Nemy, “Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister: Resisting Together,” New York Times, September 18, 1973.
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William O’Rourke, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left (New York: Crowell, 1972).
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Jesse Remedios, “Kings Bay Plowshares activists found guilty of all charges,” National Catholic Review, October 25, 2019.
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Edward W. Said, “Obituary: Eqbal Ahmad,” The Guardian, May 13, 1999.
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Rob Sheffield. “Surviving Garfunkel: How Paul Simon Found His Voice and Made His First Solo Masterpiece,” Rolling Stone, January 24, 2022.
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Carl Siciliano, “Remembering Daniel Berrigan, a Forgotten AIDS Hero,” HuffPost, May 20, 2016.
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Time, Cover, January 25, 1971.