University at Buffalo: Vietnam draft protests in 1968, the 'Buffalo nine' As opposition to the Vietnam War mounted, groups of ...
Defense officials so far have yet to confirm or publicly make any recommendations of a mandatory conscription to Congress or ...
Joe Biden declared he hopes his legacy is that he reduced the chances of war and said he was motivated to do so 'because of Vietnam'. Biden, 81, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at the ...
Pundits and protestors are drawing parallels between Joe Biden and Lyndon B Johnson – another liberal presidency doomed by an ...
The difference between Vietnam draftees and volunteer soldiers in the Panama invasion and Gulf War was obvious.
We have been learning about Loren Wood, who was born in 1947 in Tyler to Beulah and Harold Wood, grew up on a farm northwest of Balaton, graduated from Russell High School in 1965, volunteered for the ...
At different times they chose different targets: the Pentagon, Presidents Nixon and Johnson, the draft, Dow Chemical. But the students all acted from a common belief that the Vietnam War was wrong.
With the Korean War gaining traction, and friends around him receiving their draft papers, 20-year-old Barcus wondered ...
No, 2024 isn’t 1968. The comparisons are coming in hot and heavy, partly because there’s again an occupation on the Columbia ...
In the new feature, the Australian actor portrays Leonard Fife, a Vietnam War draft evader who restarts his life in Canada and becomes a documentarian. Richard Gere plays the older version of ...