The David Harris Archive
To celebrate the life of David Harris () and to announce the acquisition of his archive, Stanford Libraries hosted a memorial event on October 26th in Green Library. The program was recorded and can be viewed online.
Speakers from near and far shared their insights into David Harris’s extraordinary life, including Neil Reichline, lifelong friend and fellow activist; Lerone Martin, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University; Sophie Harris, who collaborated with her father to prepare the archives; Peter Schwartz, congressional campaign strategist and lifelong friend; Cheri Forrester, David’s wife; with concluding remarks and music by Gabriel Harris, David’s son. Recordings of selected writings by Harris were read by Peter Coyote. Family members also assembled a sampling of his archival materials to display at the event.
As a prominent activist and journalist, Harris was a leader of the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War era, and later became a widely published and acclaimed journalist and author. A native of Fresno, Harris was ele
A fourth generation Californian, David Victor Harris was born in Fresno on February 28, , the younger of two children born to Clifton Gordon Harris Jr., an attorney, and Elaine Jensen Harris, a housewife. Clifton Jr. was from Magna, Utah, where Clifton Sr. drove trains in and out of the open pit copper mines. Elaine was from Fresno, where her grandfather, Levi Barringer, settled as a sheep rancher in the ’s and her father, Daniel Jensen, was a master woodworker at the Fresno Planing Mill. David grew up in Fresno, with the exception of a year spent in Richmond, California as an infant while his father, a veteran of World War II, finished law school on the GI Bill at the University of California’s Boalt Hall. He attended public schools and graduated from Fresno High School in , where he was an honors student, a football letterman, a champion debater, and Fresno High School Boy of the Year.
Harris was admitted to Stanford University on a partial scholarship, which he supplemented by waiting on tables and working in the San Joaquin Valley packing sheds outside of Fresno during the summer. In his sophomore year, he left school for a month to join the
David Harris, born in Fresno, California in , is a journalist and author, reporting stories throughout the United States as well as in Central and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East since He is a former contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and at Rolling Stone and the author of ten nonfiction books and one novel. His work has covered a range of subjects as varied as professional football, the timber industry, presidential elections, the Kurdish diaspora, and marijuana smugglers. During the Vietnam War, Harris, Stanford University´s Student Body President, was a leader in the antiwar movement and was imprisoned for refusing orders to report for military service.
David Harris died from lung cancer at his home in Mill Valley on February 6, , at the age ofExpanded biography
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