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David Harris (Protestor)David Harris was a prominent anti-Vietnam War protestor, president of the Associated Students of Stanford University, and later, the leader of many anti-draft groups. He was also involved in SNCC's voter registration efforts in Mississippi. He was eventually imprisoned for draft evasion. Before his imprisonment, Harris was briefly married to folk singer Joan Baez. Baez relates the amusing story of his arrest to the audience during her performance at the Woodstock Festival. At Stanford, Harris was a proteg of Allard K. Lowenstein, a political organizer and later one-term Democratic congressman from New York. In the early 1980s, Lowenstein was shot to death by Harris's onetime friend Dennis Sweeney. Two years later, Harris wrote the book Dreams Die Hard about his experiences throughout the 1960s and 1970s with Lowenstein and Sweeney, and about the events leading up to the shooting.
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