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...remains, they dropped the charred stubs in a silver bowl and shook hands with the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. Shown in a darkened Boston federal courtroom last week, the TV newsreel was offered by a federal prosecutor as part of the evidence against Yale Chaplain Coffin, 43, Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, 65, and three codefendants, all charged with conspiracy...
...Army intelligence officer. In addition to snowing several film clips, Wall read militant handbills and news releases issued by the defendants, bearing such titles as "Civil Disobedience Against the War" and "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority." Wall challenged the defendants' not-guilty pleas by quoting Dr. Spock, who in December had told FBI men: "I'm well aware that I could wind up in jail because of my illegal activities...
...jury also heard Assistant Deputy U.S. Attorney General John McDonough state that Coffin, in the company of Co-Defendants Spock, Mitchell Goodman, 44, a New York writer, and Marcus Raskin, 33, a former White House disarmament aide, had delivered a briefcase filled with 356 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...
Katz said of Spock, "I welcome his voice of conscience and salute the courage of a fellow pediatrician...
...Harvard pediatricians--Dr. Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, and Dr. Samuel L. Katz, assistant professor of Pediatrics--each read statements of support for Spock yesterday at a press conference in the basement of the Arlington St. Church...