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Another "overt act" of the alleged conspiracy is the distribution in New York last August by Coffin and Dr. Spock of a statement entitled "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority...
Michael K. Ferber, a second-year Harvard graduate student, and four other men--including Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician, and William Sloan Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain--were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston Friday on charges of conspiring to counsel young men to violate the draft laws...
...Haven, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., who has been critical of Coffin's anti-draft activities, said that the indictment warrants no change in his status in the university. Harvard officials have not contacted Ferber...
According to the indictment, Coffin, Goodman, Raskin, and Dr. Spock agreed to sponsor a nation-wide draft-resistance program that would include disrupting the induction processes at various induction centers, making public appeals for young men to resist the draft and to refuse to serve in the military services, and issuing calls for registrants to turn in their draft cards...
Ferber said yesterday that all the acts alleged in the complaint are a matter of public record. His sermon has been reprinted in several independent publications since the service. In separate statements, he, Coffin, and Dr. Spock said that they are prepared to go to prison...