Michael Ferber

<p>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 <a href="/facts/Boston/exjfn6xf">Boston</a>, Massachusetts. The trial attracted national attention because one of the defendants was <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Spock/hprA1Dku">Dr. Benjamin Spock</a>, the well-known pediatrician and author of the best-selling <i><a href="/facts/The_Common_Sense_Book_of_Baby_and_Child_Care/5ttY62jN">The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care</a></i>. The other defendants were the <a href="/facts/William_Sloane_Coffin/Jj8yCxqa">Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.</a>, chaplain of Yale University; <a href="/facts/Mitchell_Goodman/lRpILNpM">Mitchell Goodman</a>, novelist and teacher; and <a href="/facts/Marcus_Raskin/vdgE891N">Marcus Raskin</a>, a lawyer who served briefly on the <a href="/facts/U.S._National_Security_Council/HYwSNFA6">U.S. National Security Council</a> under Kennedy and co-founded the <a href="/facts/Institute_for_Policy_Studies/QYd77wjY">Institute for Policy Studies</a>. The trial was known as <a href="/facts/Francis_Ford_(judge)/mcVknpLC">"The Spock Trial"</a> and the defendants as "The Boston Five".
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Michael Ferber