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...Following his sentencing Wednesday morning Dr. Benjamin Spock held a news conference and then gave David L. Horn the following interview...
...Spurned by the Democratic Convention, McCarthy helps organize the independent party that he has been talking about but refuses to lead the movement. That opens the way for Dr. Benjamin Spock, if he is still free on bail...
Quick with both his rhymes and rages, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 34, had a few angry verses after he learned of Dr. Benjamin Spock's conviction for conspiracy to incite draft evasion. In a poem titled "Monologue to Dr. Spock," Evtushenko proclaimed that there is far more sense in the "eternally constant goo-goo of a child than in the whole generation of shameless politicians." A fine sentiment, though it lost a bit in the translation. Russian...
Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who is more concerned these days with pacifists than pacifiers, seemed openly to seek arrest in hopes that he could eventually test his crusade against the Viet Nam war before the Supreme Court. 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...
...trial, which gained notoriety from Spock's presence, had dragged on for 19 days, and would probably have lasted longer had not 85-year-old Judge Francis J. W. Ford pushed the pace by regularly growling, "That's irrelevant." The plethora of evidence gathered by the prosecution included literature and statements, as well as a film of a draft-card burning attended by some of the defendants. The defense sought to counter the conspiracy charge by claiming that the five were acting as individuals (the jury agreed in Raskin's case), and that their approach...