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NEW YORK | Pacifist, socialist leader David McReynolds dead at 88

NEW YORK — Longtime pacifist and socialist activist David Mcreynolds has died at age 88.

McReynolds has died Friday in a hospital after falling in his New York City apartment. His death was confirmed by the War Resisters League, where McReynolds was a staff member from 1960 to 1999.
McReynolds was one of five men who burned their draft cards at an anti-war protest in 1965.

He later ran for president in 1980 and in 2000 on the Socialist Party USA ticket.

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