David Bender
American activist
David Bender is an American political activist, author and former host of the talk radio show Politically Direct on Air America Radio.
Political activism
David Bender's five-decade career as a political activist began at the age of twelve when he took a "leave of absence" from the seventh grade to become a full-time volunteer in the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Four years later, as a high school reporter, Mr. Bender covered the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. He was literally a "boy on the bus," traveling in the company of such journalistic legends as Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid.
Later, he became a key aide to the legendary liberal activist Allard K. Lowenstein, the former New York congressman who was a pivotal figure in both the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. He would go on to serve on the national field staffs of California Governor Jerry Brown’s 1976 presidential campaign and on Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s 1980 presidential campaign.
When John F. Kennedy, Jr. launched his political and cultural magazine, George, in 1995, he chose David Bender as its first West Coast contributing editor. Citing Mr.
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