Robert Boehm
Robert Boehm(1914 – December 26, 2006) was an American political activist. Boehm was a 1935 graduate ofDartmouth College[1]and a 1939 graduate ofColumbia UniversityLaw School.[2]The son of an attorney, he married his father's secretary, Frances Rozran; Frances Boehm died on February 14, 2006. Boehm committed himself to a lifetime of social activism, including co-establishing, withMaurice Paprin,the Fund for New Priorities in America, as well as serving as the chairman of the board for theCenter for Constitutional Rights,founded in 1966. A supporter of civil rights, an opponent of theVietnam War,and, late in life, a critic of the US detainee camp atGuantanamo Bayafter 2001, Boehm nonetheless distanced himself from leftists he felt were too extreme.
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- ^Saxon, Wolfgang (31 December 2006)."Robert Boehm, 92, Leader of Rights Group, Is Dead".The New York Times.Retrieved18 December2015.
- ^"Boehm Foundation records, 1963-2004, bulk 1993-2002 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library | Columbia University Libraries Finding Aids".findingaids.library.columbia.edu.Retrieved2023-04-26.
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