The Indictment of Dr. Benjamin Spock<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on January 5th, 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock alongside four others was indicted for conspiring to violate the Selective Services Act of 1948. The influential pediatrician and author of the best-selling book \u201cBaby and Child Care\u201d was incredulously charged with aiding and abetting draft resisters. As a pacifist opposed to the Vietnam war, Spock\u2019s activist activities, including speeches he delivered, were held up as supposed evidence of his crime. As such many saw the indictment as the first wave of a coming repression against domestic dissidents opposed to the war machine. Spock found support among many including the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who offered a statement of complicity with him and the others indicted. The American Ethical Union also authored a statement deploring the indictment stating \u201cIn our adherence to democracy, as the most equitable political form of government, we oppose repression of discouragement of the exercise of freedom of speech and of the right to dissent.\u201d As it turned out, Spock was found guilty only to have his conviction overturned, however, on appeal.<\/p>\n
Conservatives reviled the good doctor\u2019s child rearing philosophies and it\u2019s easy to see why as Spock himself said, \u201cI was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a> The Indictment of Dr. Benjamin Spock<\/strong><\/p>\n