Michael Ferber

Michael Ferber
BornMichael Kelvin Ferber
(1944-07-01) July 1, 1944 (age 80)
Buffalo, New York
OccupationEnglish professor, author, activist

Michael Kelvin Ferber (born July 1, 1944) was the youngest of the five defendants in the federal anti-draft trial in the spring of 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts. The trial attracted national attention[1][2] because one of the defendants was Dr. Benjamin Spock, the well-known pediatrician and author of the best-selling The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. The other defendants were the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., chaplain of Yale University; Mitchell Goodman, novelist and teacher; and Marcus Raskin, a lawyer who served briefly on the U.S. National Security Council under Kennedy and co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies. The trial was known as "The Spock Trial" and the defendants as "The Boston Five".[3]

  1. ^ Graham, Fred P. (6 January 1968). "Spock and Coffin Indicted for Activity Against Draft: U.S. Says Five Counseled Young Men to Resist Service". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  2. ^ Fenton, John H. (15 June 1968). "Dr. Spock Guilty with 3 Other Men in Anti-Draft Plot". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  3. ^ Mitford, Jessica (1969), The Trial of Dr. Spock: The Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin, New York, NY: Alfred A.Knopf, ISBN 978-0-39444-952-4