Former U.S. Rep. Ken Hechler, 97, to take part in W.Va. Occupy demonstration

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An aide and speechwriter of President Harry S. Truman and a progressive institution in W.Va. They couldn't have picked a better guy to lead the march.

HUNTINGTON — In celebration of the three-week anniversary of occupying the public property in front of Chase Bank at 10th St. and 5th Ave., at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, Occupy Huntington welcomes decorated statesman Ken Hechler, who wishes to stop by and show solidarity with the struggle.

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Hechler, who just turned 97, is a lifelong social activist. He represented West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1977 and was the only U.S. Congressman in 1965 to march in Selma, Alabama with with Dr. Martin Luther King.

He was the principal architect of the Coal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1969, and has been an outspoken proponent of workers rights and an opponent of Mountaintop removal in West Virginia.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/archive/x2038894046/Aging-social-activist-Ken-Hechler-set-to-lead-Occupy-Huntington-march