John E. Wall legal papers pertaining to the trial of the Boston Five

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John E. Wall legal papers pertaining to the trial of the Boston Five

1943-1972

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/604

The collection contains attorney John E. Wall's legal papers pertaining to the trial of the Boston Five. Wall was an Assistant United States Attorney who prosecuted Benjamin Spock, William Sloane Coffin, Michael Ferber, Marcus Raskin, and Mitchell Goodman for "conspiracy to counsel, aid, and abet" disobedience of the Selective Service Act during the Vietnam War. The greater portion of the collection consists of daily transcripts of Federal District Court and United States Court of Appeals proceedings. The remainder of the collection consists of materials that John Wall used to prepare his case for trial. It includes notes and correspondence, typescript memoranda and reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles.

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Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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Ferber, Michael, 1944-

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Michael Ferber was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in Greek Literature in 1966. In the fall of 1967 he helped organize and publicize a ceremony at the Arlington Street Church, Boston, where draft-age men were to turn in their draft cards and pledge to refuse induction and go to prison. That was the strategy proposed by a group of California students calling themselves "The Resistance," whose main spokesperson was David Harris...

Wall, John E. (John Edward), 1931-2007

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John E. Wall was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1931. He received his B.S. in Government from Boston College in 1954. Following several years of military service, he received his LL.B from Columbia University School of Law in 1960, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1961. He then became a Trial Attorney for the Organized Crime Section for the Department of Justice from 1963 to 1965 while furthering his education at Georgetown University where he received his LL.M in the C...