RARE "Anti-War Activist" David Harris Signed 2X5 Card For Sale

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David

Victor Harris (born February

28, 1946 in Fresno, California) is an

American journalist and author. He is known chiefly for his role as an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War era, most notably as a leading opponent

of the Draft. Harris

was born in Fresno, California. After

graduating from Fresno High School as

"Boy of the Year" in 1963, Harris enrolled in Stanford University. He

soon became involved in the Civil Rights Movement,

traveling through the Deep South to join

other students in the Student

Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Summer voter In 1966, he was elected student body president at Stanford, serving a one-year

term. As a counter-protest, Harris's head was forcibly shaved by a gang of

masked members of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity that

had many football players as members and apparently a pro-war outlook. Harris was also future Republican presidential

candidate Mitt Romney's

sole year at Stanford. In

1967, Harris founded an organization called The Resistance, which persuaded

young men of draft age to refuse to cooperate with the Selective Service System—to

return all draft cards, including exemptions and deferments, and refuse to be

drafted; and to work together to end the Vietnam War. Within a few years, the

Selective Service System discovered that only about half of the men sent draft

notices actually showed up for their draft physicals.[ The

number of casual no-shows was too great to prosecute them all—some of them

might have made a simple mistake—so the authorities only prosecuted a few

leaders of The Resistance.[ When Harris received his draft

notice, he chose neither to report nor to emigrate to Canada, as draft evaders

had frequently done. Harris was arrested in July 1969, and convicted of draft evasion, a federal felony. He was sentenced to a term in Federal Prison. He served about 15 months in various minimum-

to medium-security prisons, where he led several hunger strikes: this provided an occasion for transfer to

another prison. He was released on parole in October 1970. After his release,

he gave talks about the experience. He said: "In prison, I lost my ideals,

but not my principles. Between 1968 and 1973, Harris was married to singer and

activist Joan Baez. Baez related the story of his

arrest to the audience during one of her performances at the Woodstock Festival,

recounting that while Harris was being arrested, anti-Vietnam War protesters

were pasting a "resist the draft" bumper sticker on the police car. Having grown apart

during his imprisonment, he and Baez separated a few months after his release;

they filed for divorce a short while later. Harris and Baez had one in December 1969. Gabriel attended the

private Peninsula School in Menlo Park, which his

mother had also attended. Gabriel is a drummer who sometimes tours with his

mother. In October 2009, Harris appeared on a PBS-produced documentary on

Baez, How Sweet the Sound,

in which he reunited on camera with his former wife to reminisce about their

years together, his arrest and the birth of their son. Harris was married to

author and New York Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh from 1975 until her death in 1993. Harris

and Fosburgh had one daughter, Sophie Harris.