Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) JOE O'BELL...
...trial hearings opened in Boston yesterday in the case of Dr. Benjamin Spock, Yale chaplain the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., and three others charged by the Federal government with conspiring to encourage draft resistance...
...forces have not yet mobilized a comparable mass of public support. So Congress--especially representatives from the South and West, where guns abound--listens to the NRA. For three years, the Administration bill kicked around in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Only last week, after the assassination of The Rev. Martin Luther King, was a weakened version of the bill reported out. The weakened version--halfway between the NRA-supported bill and the Administration bill--would ban mail order sales of pistols, but would place no controls over the mail order sale of rifles...
...possible for me, though medically deferred, to try to force prosecution individually, as did Dr. Spock and Rev. Coffin, or to leave the country. Unless and until I decide to take either of these courses, I feel I should not in the slightest encourage a student to face them. The decision to accept the alternatives to induction is a private and lonely one. The individual may have to spend five years of his life in prison or leave the country permanently. He may find little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made...
Yale's decision came in the wake of the 'death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. According to Barnes, the Black Coalition was a major factor in "keeping things quiet" in New Haven following the assassination...