David Harris, an antiwar activist and writer who became a symbol of Vietnam-era draft resistance by refusing conscription, virtually demanding a jail sentence and serving 20 months, died at 76. Mr. He said resistance made a stronger statement than feeling.
Yet among young men facing conscription, Mr. Harris became a champion for his fiery oratory against the war and the economic inequities of the draft — which allowed deferments for college undergrads and skewed conscription toward less privileged and minority recruits.
“I dodged nothing,” Mr. Harris wrote in a 2017 essay in the New York Times. “I courted arrest, speaking truth to power, and power responded with an order for me to report for military service.” Mr. Harris knew the showdown was coming. He left Stanford in 1967 before graduation. Then, for more than a year, he had been speaking out against the war in a roadshow that included Baez, a superstar in folk music who had helped launch the career of Bob Dylan and was featured on the cover ofWhen he was drafted in 1968, he refused to report for induction. He was quickly indicted. The next year — after Mr.
He was sentenced to three years in federal prison. It was an unusually harsh punishment. The Selective Service referred 184,135 men to the Justice Department for prosecution during the Vietnam War. Of those, 8,756 were convicted and 4,001 were imprisoned, according to the 2020At the federal prison in La Tuna, Tex., Mr. Harris spent a total of four months in solidarity confinement for organizing inmate protests for better food and other improvements. Baez wrote while he was incarcerated.
When he was paroled in 1971, however, he emerged a “different person,” he said. He returned to antiwar activism, but his passion and focus appeared to wane. He and Baez divorced in 1973.About that time — with the Vietnam War in its final years — Mr. Harris reached out to Rolling Stone magazine to propose a series of antiwar essays. Publisher Jann Wenner instead gave Mr.
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