Dr. Spock and the Vietnam War

Dr. Benjamin Spock will always be remembered by many as the pediatrician who changed the way parents reared their children, by many others as a Vietnam era anti-war activist, and by his wife as a brilliant storyteller whose parenting advice did not carry over to his own life. Few people realize the lengths to which Benjamin Spock went to protest the Vietnam War, including running for President of the United States in 1972, how iconic a figure he was in the antiwar movement, or how critical his wife became of his work after his death.