Washington Post Cover About Ben Linder

Title: Washington Post Cover About Ben Linder
Date: 05/31/1987
Description: In 1983, recent graduate Benjamin Linder moved from his home in Portland, Oregon to Nicaragua in order to support the new, left wing Sandinista regime. Four years later, while helping to construct a hydroelectric dam, he was murdered US backed Contra rebels. The incident, along with news of further atrocities committed by the Contras and others, grew into a scandal for the Reagan administration and opened a dialogue about the extent to which the US government was responsible for acts committed by organizations it supported. In commemoration of his life, the ICC voted to name the then recently acquired house on 711 E. Catherine Street after him.
Creator: Washington Post
Source: Inter-Cooperative Council Archives
Publisher: Bentley Historical Library
Format: jpg