US holds first Vietnam War draft - 1211969

Forty-nine years ago tomorrow was the date of the first Vietnam Draft Lottery, the day the phrase “to win the lottery” became, not a prize,

US holds first Vietnam War draft - 1211969 1969 The draft lottery They put the 366 possible days of the year in transparent plastic eggs, one each for each possible birthday The put them all into a

Forty-nine years ago tomorrow was the date of the first Vietnam Draft Lottery, the day the phrase “to win the lottery” became, not a prize,

pne lottery In December 1969, the Selective Service System conducted a supposedly random lottery to determine draft order for eligible men in the

Join host Gavin McGuffin for a discussion of conscription policy in post-war America, the origins of the 1969 lottery draft, and how the draft affected college

1969 draft lottery December 1969 was not a very merry Christmastime for many American families The war in Vietnam was ramping up and the draft lottery was

A lottery drawing – the first since 1942