Spock, Benjamin McLane

US activist, pacifist, pediatrician, physician, and child care reformer

wrote "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" 1946, "A Baby's First Year" 1954, "Spock on Parenting" 1988, memoir "Spock on Spock: A Memoir of Growing Up With the Century" 1989

prominent opponent of US involvement in Vietnam War

People's Party presidential candidate 1972

People's Party vice-presidential candidate 1976

arrested at Cape Canaveral 1987 for protesting test launch of Trident 2 missile