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Draft resisters argue that they seek to confront, not evade or avoid, the draft. [25] Students for a Democratic Society sought to play a major role in it, [26] as did the War Resisters League, [23] the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's "National Black Anti-War Anti-Draft Union" [27] and other groups. [23]
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (October 18, 1893 – January 27, 1966) was an American socialite, early racing driver and aviator, who became notorious as a draft dodger in World War I. He was imprisoned for this in 1920 but soon escaped to Germany, not returning to serve his sentence until 1939.
Bruce Beyer, a leader of the Buffalo Draft Resistance Union, was arrested, as were seven others, on charges including draft evasion and assaulting an officer. Others arrested included prominent campus radicals Carl Kronberg and Jerry Gross. A later investigation led them to arrest Students for a Democratic Society organizer Bill Yates. [6] [1 ...
Bob Zaugh was one of many young men who resisted the U.S. military draft during the Vietnam War. How a tough federal judge handled his case changed both of their lives.
American draft evaders were at first assisted by the Student Union for Peace Action, a campus-based Canadian anti-war group with connections to Students for a Democratic Society. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] By late 1967, draft evaders were being assisted primarily by several locally based anti-draft groups (over twenty of them), such as the Vancouver Committee ...
Pages in category "Vietnam War draft evaders" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Muhammad Ali; B.
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[106] Humphrey believed Roosevelt's draft-dodger claim "had been approved by Bobby [Kennedy], if not Jack". [106] The claims that Humphrey was a draft dodger were inaccurate, because during the war Humphrey had "tried and failed to get into the [military] service because of physical disabilities". [ 106 ]