Robert Boehm (1914December 26, 2006) was an American political activist. Boehm was a 1935 graduate of

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and a 1939 graduate of

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Law School. 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, with Maurice Paprin, the Fund for New Priorities in America, as well as serving as the chairman of the board for the

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, and, late in life, a critic of the US detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay after 2001, Boehm nonetheless distanced himself from leftists he felt were too extreme.

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New York Times obituary

Center for Constitutional Rights homepage
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