David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven, dies

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/05/26/obit.dellinger.ap/index.html

David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven, dies
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Posted: 6:52 PM EDT (2252 GMT)

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- Peace activist David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven arrested and tried for their part in the violent anti-war protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, has died at 88.

Dellinger died Tuesday, said Peggy Rocque, administrator of Heaton Woods, the Montpelier retirement home where the activist had been living.

Dellinger was a pacifist who devoted much of his life to protesting. A member of the Old Left whose first arrest came in the 1930s during a union-organizing protest at Yale, he was a generation older than his Yippie co-defendants in the Chicago Seven case.

"Mainly I think he'll be remembered as a pacifist who meant business," said Tom Hayden, a fellow '60s radical and member of the Chicago Seven who went on to become a California legislator. "His pacifism was very forceful. He didn't mind interjecting himself between armed federal marshals and someone they were pushing around."
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for Nixon beating Humphrey in '68. Those riots turned the tides towards tricky Dick. Whats your thoughts?

Dellinger's death is a great, great loss. :cry: