Dennis Galer Goodwin

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Dennis Galer Goodwin is a U.K. man recognized by Guinness World Records as going on the world's longest hunger strike, lasting 385 days and ending in 1973.^[1]Goodwin ate only water during his hunger strike, although he was fed orally through a tube by authorities. His hunger strike was in protest of his incarceration in Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire, England after being accused of rape.