In 1967 he began to teach courses in modern drama and New Testament at Cornell University, where he became the first Catholic priest to direct the university's United Christian Work organization. In February 1968 he traveled with Howard Zinn to Hanoi to receive three captured American pilots from the North Vietnamese. On 17 May 1968 Father Berrigan, his brother Father Philip Berrigan, and seven others poured napalm on draft records in Catonsville, Maryland. Following his conviction, Berrigan spent four months underground, after which time he was captured by the FBI and imprisoned in the federal institution at Danbury, Connecticut, for nineteen months. Following the Vietnam War, Berrigan served with Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk, as vice-chairman of the American Fellowship of Reconciliation. He returned to Woodstock College for several years as professor of theology. Berrigan has continued to speak out against nuclear warfare and injustice, and he has participated in various demonstrations in recent years. He currently lives in New York City, where he teaches in an adult extension college in the South Bronx and works in a center for the terminally ill.
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