By Jacey Fortin
New York Times
David E. McReynolds, a pacifist,
socialist and sometime political candidate whose activism spanned many
decades, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 88.
The War Resisters League,
where Mr. McReynolds had been a staff member, confirmed his death. He
was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital after falling in his
Manhattan apartment, a friend, Bruce Cronin, said.
Mr.
McReynolds was best known for his demonstrations against the draft
during the Vietnam War, his advocacy of pacifism and denuclearization,
and his two bids for president in 1980 and 2000 as an openly gay man
running on the Socialist Party USA ticket.
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