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Article: John M. Wells, Activist Minister, Dies at 60
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 6, 1988
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The Rev. John M. Wells, 60, a former minister of the Reston
Community Church Unitarian Universalist who was active in the civil
rights and antiwar movements, died of cancer Sept. 4 at his home in
Fairfield, Pa.
Mr. Wells headed the Reston church from 1972 until 1987, when he
moved to Pennsylvania. A southerner by birth, he became interested
in the civil rights movement while serving in the Air Force in the
1950s. He took part in the 1963 March on Washington and he joined
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Selma-to-Montgomery, Ala.,
march in 1966.
As an antiwar activist, Mr. Wells joined James Shea in
introducing a bill in the Massachusetts legislature, of which Shea
was a member, ...