Dennis Sweeney
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Dennis Sweeney was an anti-Vietnam War protestor and civil rights activist in the 1960s. He worked with SNCC in their voter registration drives in Mississippi. During his time at Stanford University, he was the protegé of Allard Lowenstein, a political organizer who would later serve one term as a congressman from New York. As described in the book Dreams Die Hard, Sweeney eventually succumbed to mental illness, and became paranoid and delusional, thinking that Lowenstein was the central figure in an elaborate plot against him. Sweeney eventually shot and killed Lowenstein, after which he turned himself in to the police.