Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class was the last flourish of the old clitist Harvard in its pure form," says Mitchell Goodman '45, a codefendant with Doctor Spock in that 1968 draft evasion conspiracy trial. "The Abbott Lawrence Lowell conception of the gentleman-scholar was still taken seriously." Goodman was a scholarship student from public high school in Brooklyn. He was very impressed...
...people who staged an obstructive sit-in in front of the Newton draft board on Monday, May 18. The Newton police arrested each of us and charged us with being "disorderly persons"-a charge that carries with it a maximum penalty of six months in jail and/or a maximum fine...
...like to suggest that there is the possibility of taking direct action against the war and against the draft while remaining within the bounds of the law. The Shea bill is now Massachusetts law and it states quite explicitly that no inhabitant of the Commonwealth who is in the military forces shall he required to serve outside the territorial limits of the United States in hostilities not initially authorized or subsequently ratified by a formal declaration of war. In other words it is against the law at this time to force any Massachusetts man to fight in Vietnam or Laos...
...Boston Army Base to block buses carrying inductees to a war they do not want to fight. For this I am jailed. My jail sentence is light and the fact that my security is loose is the only reason this letter can pass to the public. From thousands of draft resisters who are now held in Federal prisons where security is better we shall hear nothing. They are the Vietnam fighters I honor...
...government's policy must be changed and it will only be changed by determined action. Opponents to the war-conscientious citizens everywhere-must act to put morality before personal safety or expediency. The GI knows no safety and the draft resister is not being expedient...