We Support the Boston Five
notes: label: Description
content: The Boston Five are Rev. Coffin, Dr. Spock, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman, and Michael Ferber. In January 1968 they were convicted of "conspiring to counsel, aid, and abet Selective Service registrants to evade military service and refuse to carry draft cards." At a draft protest in October 1967 over 200 men turned in or burned their draft cards. The judge at the trail stated that the trial was only to determine whether or not the defendants had broken the law, not about the legality/ illegality of the war. Four of the five received guilty verdicts, but the convictions were later overturned.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: general subject association
content: Protest and Civil Disobedience
label: Subject
content: Vietnam War
label: related event
content: Vietnam War
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bradford Lyttle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0116.128
label: accession number
content: 1986.0116
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0116.128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 22 in; 71.12 cm x 55.88 cm