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Were the recent indictments of Spock, Coffin, et al part of a coolly calculated policy? Or an act of desperation? Or both? Let me suggest a context which may explain why the government chose this time to prosecute some articulate and famous spokesman from the draft resistance movement...
...accused "conspirators" appeared delighted with the opportunity to challenge the legitimacy of the war in the courts. "I suppose that the only way it can be tested is if people of some repute are arrested and tried," said Goodman. Coffin, the day before the Pentagon march, urged outright violation of the draft law: "If they are now arrested for failing to comply with the law that violates their consciences, we too must be arrested, for in the sight of that law we are now as guilty as they." When he was not immediately arrested, he called the Government "derelict...
...last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again. Olden burg thereupon solemnly proclaimed the result a buried, invisible sculpture. Last month it was time for the West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks...
...recent federal grand jury indictments of Michael Ferber 2G, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr. sparked this debate on the war, resistance to the draft, and the future of the protest movement...
Michael K. Ferber is a young foot soldier in the fight against the war in Vietnam. When the Justice Department last Friday indicted the generals--including Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloan Coffin Jr.--for conspiracy against the draft laws, it picked Ferber out of the ranks to join them. Despite the prospect of a five-year prison sentence for his October anti-draft sermon in Boston's Arlington Street Church, Ferber last night committed what the Attorney General might consider a similar "offense" in speaking at Harvard's anti-war, anti-draft Teach...