Biography
Mitchell Goodman was a novelist and antiwar activist (and husband of the poet Denise Levertov) who helped organize the October 1967 turn-in of draft cards at the Justice Department. He was one of the "Boston Five," indicted in January 1968 for conspiracy to aid, abet, and counsel young men to resist the draft during the Vietnam War, after publicly supporting draft resistance in the statement "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority." Convicted in 1968 and sentenced to two years, he stayed free pending appeal; the convictions were reversed in 1969, and he served no time.
