David Harris

David Harris served 20 months in prison as a Viet Nam war, draft resister. He was also student body president at Stanford University. He gave the keynote address at the 40th anniversary of the "April 3rd Movement" - a student anti-war protest group that took over the Applied Electronics building for 9 days in 1969. Here are Harris' reflections of the 60's activism and its political and personal significance.

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• David Harris
• Viet Nam war
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• Stanford University
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• radical
• Anti-war
• pacifist
• Civil rights
• 1960's

[Kennylennon5]

@dabsy1 yup.

[dabsy1]

was he Joan Baez' husband?

[patienttype]

I was about sixteen when David Harris was student body president at Stanford. His words and actions were part of the learning process that made me an anti war advocate and an under age volunteer in the Eugene McCarthy campaign.

Mr. Harris is one of my heros. He is older now, as am I, but his messages still ring true and carrying an urgency that we can little afford to disregard.

David, thank you for your service to our country. You held us to a higher standard and we are the better for that.

[gremlinfeatures]

I really want to kiss the first woman on her tuppence

[Wendells1]

Very interesting and a timely reminder of what was - and can be - achieved.

[gapatton]

Good. And a great ending!