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...presenting its case to the all-male jury, the prosecution charged that the five conspired "to unlawfully, knowingly and willfully counsel, aid and abet" young Americans in evading the draft. Lawyers for the defense answered the charges with the argument that the free-speech guarantee of the First Amendment shielded their clients from prosecution...
...always in the war when the Communists do not choose to fight, the allies for the moment could find few of the enemy. The explanation lay neither in a purposeful de-escalation by Hanoi to abet peace talks nor the possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration...
...five--Spock, Coffin, Ferber, Marcus Raskin, director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and Mitchell Goodman '46, a writer--are charged with conspiring to counsel, aid, and abet men to refuse military service and to violate provisions of the Selective Service...
Named with the baby doctor for "conspiring to counsel, aid and abet" young men to evade service in the armed forces were four other antiwarriors: Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 43, long an activist in civil rights and antiwar causes; Brooklyn-born Novelist-Polemicist Mitchell Goodman, 44, who broke up last year's National Book Awards ceremony by shouting "We are burning children in Viet Nam"; former White House Disarmament Aide Marcus Raskin, 33, who now serves as co-director of a Washington research organization; and Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student and peace preacher...
...hereby aid, counsel, and abet you not to participate in this war," Cox said, echoing the language of the indictment...