John Grady

John Grady was an auto mechanic from Ithaca, NY and patriarch of the Grady family of Catholic radicals. He had previously been a defendant in the Camden 28 anti-draft action of 1971 and worked closely with Daniel and Philip Berrigan; his daughters Clare, Ellen, and Teresa Grady all became major Plowshares and Catholic Worker activists. The Grady family home in Ithaca was a center of Vietnam-era and ongoing antiwar organizing.

Veteran Catholic peace activist and labor organizer, considered an organizational leader of the Camden 28 draft-board raid of August 21–22, 1971. Acquitted with all other tried defendants in the landmark May 1973 jury-nullification verdict in Camden, New Jersey.