Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week at Boston's Federal District Court, he moved closer to that goal. An all-male jury pronounced Spock, 65, guilty of conspiring to counsel and abet young men in evading the draft. Also found guilty: Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 44, Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber, 23, and Writer Mitchell Goodman, 44. The fifth member of "the Boston Five," Marcus Raskin, 34, a former White House disarmament aide, was acquitted...
Coffin greeted the sentence with a droll "I think they have confused the lightning bugs with the lightning." Of the guilty four, draft-age Ferber stands to lose least from the verdict. While appealing the case, he is a free man; had he been let off, he would have faced immediate induction. Presumably, Ferber would have refused to serve, and thereby become liable for prosecution under the Selective Service...
...draft cards to the Justice Department. McDonough testified that Raskin declared, "These cards are evidence of a violation of a federal law, and it is your duty to accept them." Film shot by a Boston TV crew of the draft-card-burning ceremony showed the fifth defendant, Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student, urging his audience "to make it difficult and politically dangerous for the government to prosecute...
...trial with Spock, 65, the nationally-known pediatrician, are the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain, Michael Ferber, 23, a second-year graduate student in English here, Mitchell I. Goodman '45, a New York-based author, and Marcus Raskin, director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington...
...Buffalo, N. Y., draft board is the same one that has reclassified Michael K. Ferber 1-A. Ferber, a second-year graduate student here in English, is also under federal indictment for counselling others to resist the draft at the Oct. 16 protest...