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Draft card. >> seven young and earnest protesters burn draft cards on the steps of a boston courthouse. a group of high school boys set upon them with fists. >> the draft was in place from world war ii. when you turned 18 you had to register. >> in january 1965, 5,400 young men were called to the draft. in december 1965, 45,224 young men were called. this is one fact boring in on the american conscience and causing increasing concern. >> it was a compulsory draft, forced you to make a choice, vietnam against your will, jail against your will, canada against your will, no good options. >> all k...

Against your will, no good options. >> all kinds of ways are found to try to beat the physical. people are known to mutilate themselves. >> starve themselves, declare they were homosexual when they weren't. >> there were escape hatches in terms of deferments, like deferments for college students, which means that working class young people are likely to get drafted before upper middle class. >> the war was waged in a lot of living rooms in america. it was a real generational divide because my father's generation went off and saved europe. i fully expected to have a military experience, but it ...

Draft card. >> seven young and earnest protesters burn draft cards on the steps of a boston courthouse. a group of high schoolboys set upon them with fists. >> the draft was in place from world war ii. when you turned 18 you had to register. >> in january 1965, 5,400 young men were called to the draft. in december 1965, 45,224 young men were called. this is one fact boring in on the american conscience and causing increasing concern. >> it was a compulsory draft, forced you to make a choice, vietnam against your will, jail against your will, canada against your will, no good options. >> all ki...

>> starve themselves, declare they were homosexual when they weren't. >> there were escape hatches in terms of deferments, like deferments for college students, which means that working class young people are likely to get drafted before upper middle class. >> the war was waged in a lot of living rooms in america. it was a real generational divide because my father's generation went off and saved europe. i fully expected to have a military experience, but it was the wrong damn war. >> no more war! no more war! >> washington, november 27th, the rally was to be held at the washington monument. t...

And people were crying out, hollering, calling for help, some of those look like they were very severely injured. blood flowing from their heads. it was quite a sight. >> you were traveling with some friends. you had a group that you were traveling with. were any of your -- the people you were traveling with seriously injured? i mean, were you able to walk yourself off the bus? or did everyone stay in the bus and try to help people? >> well, there's no way you could walk off the bus the way it was. you had to go through the two escape hatches that were on the roof. but the bus on the side, it ...