FORT BENNING, Ga. — March 29, 1973: The last U.S. ground troops depart the Republic of Vietnam. Today, March 29 has become a ...
Vietnam War Protests: Draft dodgers openly defied the draft by burning draft cards and fleeing to Canada. Civil Rights Movement: Protesters broke unjust laws, such as segregated seating ...
From a now-regretted counter-counterculture anthem to an oft-misunderstood ’80s hit to the song that allegedly got its singer ...
Due to the lack of support around the Vietnam War and the draft, the US ended its draft policy during the war. President Ronald Reagan would end the draft while ensuring that the Selective Service ...
But the students all acted from a common belief that the Vietnam War was wrong ... where students tried to organize a national burn-your-draft-card movement; and Harvard, where protesters ...
The draft card turn-in staged at Boston's Arlington ... that the case was an opportunity to test the legality of the war in Vietnam and the nation's draft laws. But U.S. District Judge Francis ...
Former President Donald Trump, who was born in 1946, also did not serve in the Vietnam War, unlike many members of his generation. The ex-president received four draft deferments while an ...
Fox; and the overlap of the civil-rights movement with anti-war and anti-draft protests in "Da 5 Bloods" (2020), starring Chadwick Boseman. Allison also analyzes how the US and Vietnam have used ...