Biography

Spector grew up in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts and earned his BA and MA at Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

. After serving in Korea, he earned his J.D. from Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 and the PhD in history from Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

. He was a professor at Northeastern University School of Law]] and at the niversity of Massachusetts Medical School. He and his wife, the former Charlotte Werlin, lived in Framingham, Massachusetts

Framingham, Massachusetts

Framingham is a New England town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 68,318 as of the United States 2010 Census. -History:...

where they reared two sons, Richard and Kenneth.

Books

• W. Cameron Forbes and the Hoover commissions to Haiti, 1930, University Press of America, 1984
• World without civilization: mass murder and the Holocaust, history and analysis, University Press of America, 2004