Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attacking the Justice Department's interpretation of the Selective Service law, Leonard Boudin, Spock's attorney, maintained that Congress never intended mere non-possession of a draft card to be a crime. Even if the regulations of Selective Service were violated, he continued, it would be "an extraordinary delegation of power to the Selective Service System" if every violation were considered a criminal...
...trial hearings opened in Boston yesterday in the case of Dr. Benjamin Spock, Yale chaplain the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., and three others charged by the Federal government with conspiring to encourage draft resistance...
Included as specific charges in the Government's case are the defendants' participation in the Oct. 16 demonstration at the Arlington St. Church, and in another demonstration four days later in Washington in which draft cards collected in Boston were turned in to the Justice Department...
...There seems to me no doubt that the turning in of a draft card is symbolic free speech," said James St. Clair, Coffin's attorney, adding that "the privilege of these defendants to oppose the action of their government is the traditional, classic thing that is protected by the First Amendment...
...orientation ask "Why are we in Vietnam?" and other relevant questions about the war and the draft. It's your right as a free citizen. They may ask you to leave. You may either refuse and be dragged out or go cheerfully making appropriate remarks about the military...