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Whoopi Goldberg Quickly Walks Back Her Own Claim About Going to Jail
Whoopi Goldberg teased on ‘The View’ that she’s hiked the Appalachian Trail alone and spent six months behind bars
The awe-inspiring acronym is shorthand for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, the four highest achievements one could receive in the entertainment industry. A brief dig reveals that Goldberg was arrested in May 1985 at the University of California Berkeley’s campus during a protest over racial policies in South Africa. She and Berkeley’s then-mayor Gus Newport were taken into custody with about a dozen others for blocking entrances to the headquarters, per an Associated Press syndicated article on The New York Times.
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