ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Monday, February 3, 1997 TAG: 9702030089
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: TEMPLE, MAINE
Mitchell Goodman, a teacher and writer who became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War during the 1960s, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He was 73.
Goodman published three books of poems and was the author of a compendium of documents from the 1960s titled ``The Movement Toward a New America.''
Goodman took part in rallies to protest the Vietnam War. As part of the Boston Five group, which included Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Michael Ferber and Marcus Raskin, he was convicted in 1968 of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act for his support of draft resisters. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
A federal appeals court overturned the convictions.
- Associated Press
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