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(Jul. 16, 1990) Died:Mitch Synder
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 16, 1990 Twentysomething
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 52
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<p> DIED. Mitch Snyder, 46, indefatigable champion of the
homeless; apparently by suicide; in Washington. Snyder was
found hanged, with an electric cord around his neck, at the
Community for Creative Non-Violence shelter he helped
establish. Police attributed the suicide to his despair over
a failed relationship. On the eve of the 1984 presidential
election, Snyder defied death and Ronald Reagan in a 51-day fast
that ultimately led the Government to donate an abandoned
federal building for a showcase shelter. Martin Sheen portrayed
him in the 1986 CBS television movie Samaritan: The Mitch
Snyder Story.
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