Sponsor Message But during the Vietnam War — and especially as public ... who "violated the Military Selective Service Act by draft-evasion acts or omissions committed between August 4, 1964 ...

Subsequent draft lotteries for the Vietnam War were held in 1970, 1971, and 1972. Though some saw the televised draft lottery as a way to randomize the selection process, detractors of the war ...

On Jan. 21, 1977, the day after his inauguration, Carter issued Executive Order 11967, granting a pardon to all Vietnam War draft dodgers. It included those who failed to register for the draft ...

The VIETNAM WAR, an undeclared war in Southeast Asia in which the ... with legal officials reporting 25 cases that month alone. By Feb. 1973, about 500 draft-evasion cases were pending trial in the ...

Both Trump and Biden came of age during the Vietnam War era, when males 18 and older were eligible to be drafted into military service, but both obtained multiple draft deferments that kept them ...

To the editor: I could have faced a similar fate to Vietnam War draft resister Bob Zaugh. (“A draft resister, a judge and the moment that still binds them after 54 years,” June 14) Vietnamese ...

Read on to learn more about this controversial facet of what was once America’s longest war. It wasn’t the first draft in American history ... The draft during the Vietnam War was not the ...

The pardon was one of the defining presidential moments for Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The move was pilloried by members of... When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in ...

Further Reading: Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War David Card; Thomas Lemieux Harvard President Takes Subtle Shot At Trump I’ve been a couples ...