Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irons wrote his draft board that he was returning his card because he felt U.S. laws supported racial discrimination and he wanted to remove himself from the government's jurisdiction...
Irons said yesterday he applied for the pardon in September 1974, when Ford announced a clemency program for Vietnam draft resisters who performed alternate service...
...former President Gerald R. Ford's last day in office, Peter H. Irons, a second-year law student, received Ford's pardon for having refused to register for the draft...
Comment from the Justice Department staff and Ford's transition team was unavailable yesterday, but a White House spokesman said Ford pardoned "a very small number of draft resisters," and that most of them performed some kind of alternate service in return for the pardon...
...because he had sent his draft card in before August 1964--the date of the Tonkin Bay resolution considered the official beginning of the Vietnam War--Irons was not included in the clemency program, and for the next two years his case was tied up in Justice Department bureaucracy...