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| | [Deathwatch] David Dellinger, protester / radical pacifist, 88 |
 | | Lifelong protester David Dellinger dies By Patricia Sullivan / The Washington Post May 27, 2004 WASHINGTON -- David Dellinger, a lifelong radical pacifist and one of the Chicago Seven antiwar demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, died of pneumonia May25 at the Montpelier, Vt., retirement home where he lived. |
 | | Dellinger, who had been protesting since the 1930s, was the oldest of the seven (originally eight) Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot after a massive demonstration in the streets and parks of Chicago turned violent. |
 | | Dellinger continued to protest -- against nuclear testing, against the bomb, against the Korean War, for prisoners' rights and for Puerto Rican independence. |
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