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To: JohnM who wrote (94496)	11/6/2008 11:35:24 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541598

It does appear, however, that Lieberman was involved in civil rights activity in Mississippi in October 1963. Bill Coffin, who would know better than anyone, says so in this NYTimes op ed piece in 2000. query.nytimes.com Now Coffin was one of the great human beings of our time. Here's a taste of him in a line from wikipedia. In his younger days he was a superb athlete, a highly talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze (now Peace Action), the nation's largest peace and justice group, and prominently opposed United States military intervention from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights. I recommend skimming the brief and very truncated biography at wikipedia. Unfortunately, it fails to mention Coffin's early involvement as a Freedom Bus Rider. en.wikipedia.org