Jul 01, 1944Buffalo, New York, United States79 years oldCancer
About Michael Ferber
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 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".