Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Draft Card Burner...
...year sentence for burning a draft card, which the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld, was revoked by District Judge Andrew A. Caffrey of Boston yesterday because 21-year-old David P. O'Brien of Cambridge had had a "change of attitude." Caffrey put O'Brien, who served two months in federal prison, on probation for three years, provided he accepts civilian work in a hospital in lieu of military service...
...criticism--is Professor Frank Freidel, 52, senior member of the History Department and noted Franklin D. Roosevelt biographer. Freidel, approached both by members of Afro and by the faculty committee last spring, abandoned his plans to teach a course this year on the New Deal and accepted the draft. After soliciting recommendations from black students and other faculty members, Freidel spent a summer on Cape Cod gathering together his lecture material and drawing up a reading list...
Some of the girls met with Glenn Hoffman of the Boston Draft Resistance Group last night to discuss other avenues of active protest...
Hoffman was more pessimistic, saying, "Draft boards will still ask the same stupid questions; the people who actually make the decisions are still basically senile American Legionnaires...