Who Sat on the Draft Boards That Sent Men to Vietnam | The Draft Ep 9

Описание: Before the lottery, the Vietnam draft was a pyramid of escape hatches — and the boards deciding who died looked nothing like the men they drafted. This is a data episode.

"Greeting: Who America Sent to War — and Who Refused" moves through the deferment pyramid (student, occupational, hardship, the National Guard "safe harbor"), the finding that Black Americans were about 1.3% of local board members in 1966, McNamara's Project 100,000, and the government's own 1967 indictment — the Marshall Commission's "In Pursuit of Equity: Who Serves When Not All Serve?"

Sources include the Marshall Commission report (public domain), Baskir & Strauss, and Christian Appy; contested figures are attributed.

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