of 1967? (Id. at 180). The second question substituted the word 'counsel' for 'aid' while the third question substituted the word 'counsel' with 'abet'. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, while answering most of the special questions in the government's favor. When Ford sentenced the defendants to two years in prison he stated, "Rebellion against the law is in the nature of treason." His verdict was overturned by the First Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court held that Ford had committed prejudicial error by submitting the ten special questions to the jury. Criticism There was widespread criticism of Ford following the Spock trial. Howard Zinn, in his book Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies of Law and Order wrote, "In sentencing Dr. Spock, William Coffin, Michael Ferber, and Mitchell Goodman to jail terms on July 10, 1968, Judge Francis Ford in Boston quoted Justice Fortas that 'Lawlessness cannot be tolerated,' and added his own words: 'Where law and order stops, obviously anarchy begins.'" Zinn continued, "That is the same basically conservative impulse which once saw minimum wage laws as leading to socialism, or bus desegregation leading to intermarriage…." Personal Ford married Anna Creswell and they had one daughter. References External links Allston Families Hit BRA in First Day of Hearings, The Harvard Crimson; 10/22/1969 kahlilgibran.org 1882 births 1975 deaths Harvard Law School alumni Lawyers from Boston Boston City Council members Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts United States district court judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt 20th-century American judges United States Attorneys for the District of Massachusetts