Jim OGrady - Disarmed and dangerous : the radical lives and times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan

The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan

Murray Polner and Jim OGrady

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Polner, Murray.
Disarmed and dangerous: the radical lives and times of
Daniel and Philip Berrigan/by Murray Polner and Jim
O'Grady. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-465-03084-X (hc).0-8133-3449-7 (pb)
1. Berrigan, Daniel. 2. Berrigan, Philip.
3. CatholicsUnited StatesBiography. I. O'Grady
Jim. II. Title
BX4705.B3845P65 1998
322.4'4'092273dc20
[B] 96-25804

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-3449-3 (pbk)

A friend loveth at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.

PROVERBS 17:17

WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE COURTESIES EXTENDED US by James Tyler and the Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection, #4602, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Thanks, too, to Philip Runkel at the Catholic Worker Collection, Marquette University; Reverend Peter Hogan, S.S.J., and the St. Joseph Society Archive; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and its curator, Wendy Chmielowski, for the Harrisburg Defense Committee Papers as well as the Anne Morrissett Papers and William Davidon Papers; the Great Neck, New York, Library for its extensive collection and cooperation in obtaining interlibrary loans; the State University of New York at Buffalo, Lockwood Memorial Library; Richard Carbray for the Richard Carbray Collection, University of Washington Library, and Lucy Ostrander, our researcher there; Kent Yates and Lynn Hanson at the University of Illinois Library; Charles Meconis for his mid-1970s interviews with members of the Catholic Left; the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library for the John Schuchardt Papers; the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy; the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library for the Ramsey Clark Papers, and our researcher, Diana Claitor; Elmer Maas and the Kairos Community Archive; Bill Roberge and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Reading Room; the New York Public Library; The Free Library of Philadelphia; St. John's University, Staten Island Campus Library; the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore; Robert E. Daggy and the Thomas Merton Center of Bellarmine College; the Merton Archives at Boston College; and St. Aloysius Church and Tricia Sullivan of Pax Christi, both in Washington, D.C.

Thanks also to those who graciously shared their unpublished letters, manuscripts, memoirs, and papers: John Bach; Daniel Kerrigan, S.J.; Philip Berrigan; Richard Cusack; Richard Deats; John Deedy; Barbara Dougherty; Douglas Dowd, the Reverend Michael Doyle; David Eberhardt; Jim Forest; John Theodore Glick; Patrick Henry; Robert Blair Kaiser; Dr. George McVey; James Matlack; Dean Pappas; and Jonathan Roberts.

We thank those who granted us interviews or assisted us in other ways with this book: Elliott M. Abramson; Liza Apper; John Bach; Betty Bartelme; Paul Baumann; Zoe L. Belth; James Berrigan; Carol Berrigan; Frida Berrigan; Jerome Berrigan; Rosalie Berrigan; Jason Berry; Greg Boertje-Obed; Jill Boskey; the Reverend Bill Brisotti; Anna Brown; Bishop Charles Buswell; Daniel Callahan; Richard Carbray; Harry James Cargas; Bill (Harrington; Barry Cassidy; Esther Cassidy; Gene Chenoweth; Ramsey Clark; the Reverend Frank Cordaro; Tom Cornell; Joe Cosgrove; Patrick Cotter; J. Shane Creamer; Earl Crow; Joseph Cunneen; Sally Cunneen; Richard Cusack; Mary Daly; Bruce Dancis; Ann Morrissett Davidon; William Davidon; the Reverend John Dear, S.J.; Richard Deals; John Deedy; Ellen DeMott; Peter DeMott; Julie Diamond Ahmad; Frank Donovan; Barbara Dougherty; Michael Dougherty; James W. Douglass; Douglas Dowd; the Reverend Michael Doyle; Richard Drinnon; David Eberhardt; Eileen Egan; Daniel Ellsberg; Robert Ellsberg; the Reverend Thomas Farrelly; Pat Farren; Dan Finlay; Linda Finlay; James Finn; James (Jim) Forest; Daniel Freudenberger; John F. Gaffney; Edward Gargan; Charles A. Glackin; John Theodore Glick; Peter Goldberger; John C. Goodwin; John Peter Grady; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton; Richard Haas; Dean Hammer; Reverend John Heidbrink; Patrick Henry; Susannah Heschel; Herman M. Heyn; Philip Hirschkop; John Hogan; Larry Holdfelder; Edward L. Holmgren; Zoia Horn; Robert Hoyt; Susan Human; Patrick Jordan; Peter Jordan; Donna Poggi Keck; the Reverend Robert Keck, S.J.; Jim Kelly; Lee Kohns; Robert Kristiansen; the Reverend Dexter Lanctot; Terry Lenzner; John Leo; Harold Levy; the Reverend Jack Lewis; the Reverend James Loughran, S.J.; William Lynch; Elmer Maas; Elizabeth (Liz) McAl ister; Patrick McCarthy; the Reverend Joseph McCloskey, S.J.; Peter McDonough; Vincent J. McGee; the Reverend William Hart McNichols, S.J.; David McReynolds; the Reverend Richard McSorley, S.J.; George McVey; James Magee; Rabbi Jerome Malino; Daniel Mark; Jack Marth; Douglas Marvy; James Matlack; Paul Mayer; Charles Meconis; the Reverend James Mengel; Bernard E. Meyer; William Michaels; Dennis Moloney; Sister Ann Montgomery; Mary Moylan; Joseph Mulholland; Sister Christine Mnlreadv; James Munves; the Reverend Philip Murnion; the Reverend Edward Murphy, S.J.; Mickey Myers; the Reverend Richard John Neuhaus; the Reverend Earl Newman, S.S.J.; Jim Noonan; the Reverend Fred O'Connor, S J.; William O'Connor; Bill Offenloch; the Reverend Henry Offer, S.S.J.; James O'Gara; Patrick O'Neill; Joseph O'Rourke; Dean Pappas; Jonathan Parfrey; Joseph Pickle; Vinnie Quayle; Stephen Riley; the Reverend Joseph Roccosalvo, S.J.; Lin M. Romano; Molly Rush; Stephen Sachs; Rabbi David Saperstein; Margaret Saraco; Stewart Schaar; Karen Schiff; John Schuchardt; Bob Schwartz; Monsignor Frank Scollen; Martin Sheen; Edward Skillin; Bob Smith; Samuel F.H. Smith; Fred Solway; Margaret O'Brien Steinfels; Peter Steinfels; the Reverend Alden Stevenson, S.J.; Bishop Walter F. Sullivan; Sue Susman; John Swomley; Marcia Timmel; the Reverend David Toolan, S.J.; Carmen Trotta; Michael True; Arthur Waskow; Sue Wesselkamper; DcAnne Mimms Pappas West; Grenville Whitman; Roger Wilkes; John Williams; the Reverend Charles Winans, S.J,; Bill Wylie-Kellerman; Sister K.C. Young, O.P.; Gordon Zahn; and Howard Zinn. A number of interviewees preferred to remain anonymous.