Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...five--Spock, Coffin, Ferber, Marcus Raskin, director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and Mitchell Goodman '46, a writer--are charged with conspiring to counsel, aid, and abet men to refuse military service and to violate provisions of the Selective Service...
...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...
Completely Irrevocable. Many of Johnson's critics could not bring themselves to believe that he was sincere. He might have "something up his sleeve," said Pediatrician Benjamin Spock. "I hope he means it," said retired Lieut. General James Gavin. "I'm afraid he doesn't, and that he would accept a fair draft." Many sophisticated Europeans suspected that Johnson hoped to duplicate the feat of Egypt's Nasser, who "quit" after the disastrous war with Israel in 1967 but was restored to power by popular demand. "Is this a false exit," wondered Paris' Le Monde, designed "to stop the rapid...
...January, Harvard refused to allow WGBH-TV to televise a Lowell Lecture Hall teach-in on the war in Vietnam arranged after Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Michael Ferber, a second-year graduate student, and two other men were indicted for conspiracy to help others evade the draft...