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Lt. Peter Dewey is the first American killed in Vietnam.
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Twelve students at a New York rally burn their draft cards and coin the slogan "We won't go!"
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The U.S. Congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Draft-card burning is made a crime punishable by five years in prison.
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The Selective Service calls 27,500 . . . more than in any other month since 1953.
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The Selective Service monthly call escalates to 40,200.
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David Mitchell becomes the first person convicted for draft-card burning.
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Twelve black demonstrators are arrested at a sit-in at the Atlanta induction center; most are sentenced to three years in prison.
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1500 draft cards are burned or returned.
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Beach Boy Carl Wilson is indicted for failing to report for induction.
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Muhammad Ali is sentenced to five years in prison for refusing induction.
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A new draft law is passed; graduate student deferments are ended.
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Stop the Draft Week: two thousand draft cards are turned in; a national resistance organized is formed.
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Joe Baez and 122 others are arrested at the Oakland, California, induction center.
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The Baltimore Four destroy draft files.
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300 people are arrested at anti-draft demonstrations in New York.
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General Westmoreland requests 206,000 men in addiction to the current force of 510,000- a 40 percent increase.
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Lyndon Johnson announces he will not seek reelection.
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Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris.
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562 Americans are killed in Vietnam in a single week.
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The Catonsville Nine (The Berrigan brothers and seven others) burn 378 draft records with homemade napalm in Catonsville, Maryland.
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Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles.
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Dr. Benjamin Spock is convicted of conspiracy to counsel draft evaders and violation of the Universal Military Training and Service Act.
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The Democratic National Convention in Chicago is disrupted by rioting; Hubert Humphrey becomes the Democratic nominee; Richard Nixon becomes the Republican nominee at the Republican convention in Miami.
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The Milwaukee Fourteen destroy 10,000 draft records.
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Richard Nixon is elected President.
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The first draft lottery is drawn for 1970.
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Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan go underground after destroying draft records.
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Dependency deferments are ended by Nixon executive order.
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The U.S. invades Cambodia.
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The National Guard opens fire on students at an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four and wounding thirteen.
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Senator Edward Kennedy begins amnesty hearings for draft offenders.
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The last induction takes place.
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President Geral Ford announces a clemency program: conditional amnesty in exchange for two years' alternative service.
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Draft registration is ended.
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President Jimmy Carter issues a blanket pardon for draft resisters.
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Draft registration is reinstated.
