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Supreme Court hearing sought on draft card protest rights
University of Washington graduate student Russell Wills asks the Supreme Court to bar draft boards from using a protest of burning draft cards as punishment. Wills, who destroyed his draft card in 1965 and was later sentenced to five years, argues such acts are peaceful symbolic speech protected by the Constitution. The case parallels challenges to the ban on destroying draft cards and probes whether reclassification to 1-A constitutes punishment for protest during the Vietnam era.
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Wills
Framingham
Mass
O'Brien
U.S. Circuit Court
Boston
Supreme Court
Justice Department
O’brien
Hershey
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Jetter
Atty
Ramsey Clark
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Johnson
New York City
Ann Arbor
Mich