Five exemplary defendants, a cast-iron judge, an anachronistic indictment, a government determined to quell a particular flow of dissent - this is the picture that sharply emerges as Jessica Mitford chronicles at first hand the trial of Dr. the prosecution in Boston, in 1968, of the almost-legendary baby doctor and his four co-defendants on a charge of conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet violations of the Selective Service Act.
The Trial of Dr. Spock, The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin
