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The Berrigans At Catonsville: A Case Study In Symbolic Behavior As Rhetoric, Susan Baker
The Berrigans At Catonsville: A Case Study In Symbolic Behavior As Rhetoric, Susan Baker
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In May of 1968, Father Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, and his brother, Father Philip Berrigan, a Josephite priest, and seven others, entered the draft board offices in Catonsville, Maryland where they removed 378 draft files and burned them with homemade napalm.
This paper examines that event as a case study in symbolic behavior as rhetoric. In doing so, the author first seeks a definition of rhetoric, and a definition of symbolic behavior. Background material, both on the Berrigans, and on symbolic behavior as rhetoric is provided.
The major portion of the paper deals with the analysis of the event …