Word: coffining
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...breakfast program to feed as many children as there are black students at Yale College (about 250). The real goal, though, was to mobilize Yale's students and teachers to help stop or at least influence the murder trial. The climate was such that Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. saw no unreason in characterizing the murder trial as "legally right but morally wrong...
...group, organized by Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, cited what they called "incomplete" arrangements for marshals and the absence of a clear chain of command, adding that "the possibility of disorder seems significantly greater" than in other demonstrations-such as the October Moratorium-which have taken place in New Haven...
...attorney Herbert Travers told the federal District Court in Boston that available evidence-and the acquittal of Spock, Ferber, and Raskin-"does not warrant the retrial of Coffin and Goodman...
...Coffin, Ferber, Goodman, and Spock were convicted in June, 1968. Raskin was acquitted. However, a Federal appeals court later set aside the convictions, directing that Ferber and Spock be acquitted and that Coffin and Goodman be given now trials...
...coffin had the words "Biocide" and the names of several airlines written on it, while another listed the names of several Southeast Asian countries under the word "Genocide...