AR-News: (U.S.) article on animal rights champion Lori Lehner

[Mary Finelli]

The on-line article includes a photo.


ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST LORI LEHNER DIES
The Washington Post, Matt Schudel, June 23, 2004; Page B06


Lori Lehner, who played a central role in the infamous "Silver Spring 
monkeys" case when she opened her house to 17 laboratory monkeys in 1981, 
died of leukemia June 2 in Tampa. She was 45 and had lived in Florida since 
1997.

By outfitting her basement in Rockville as a temporary refuge for the 
monkeys, Ms. Lehner helped set in motion the celebrated case, which led to a 
decade of legal and scientific wrangling and propelled the newly formed 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals into the most powerful and 
controversial group in the animal rights movement.

Ms. Lehner had studied to be an actress, but she found herself on an 
especially bright public stage when Montgomery County police raided a Silver 
Spring laboratory on Sept. 11, 1981, and seized 17 monkeys from the 
Institute for Behavioral Research.

complete article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62508-2004Jun22.html

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