Biography
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous pediatrician and author of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," was one of the "Boston Five," indicted in January 1968 for conspiracy to aid, abet, and counsel young men to resist the draft during the Vietnam War, after publicly supporting draft resistance in the statement "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority." Convicted in June 1968 and sentenced to two years in prison, he remained free on his own recognizance pending appeal; in 1969 the court of appeals reversed the convictions, acquitting Spock outright on First Amendment grounds. He served no time and continued as a leading antiwar organizer.
