The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.
Activities at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Takhli, Thailand. Crates and shells piled up at the air force base. United States KC-135 A aircraft lined up at the base. Airmen walk past the hootch (barracks) area. A sign on a house reads ' Takhli house branch of Wichita town house '. A tree in the foreground. Men walk past the houses. A tractor levels the earth. A clothes line outside the hootches in the background. A KC-135A tankers parked in the ramp area. United States KC-135A aircraft lined up at the air base.
United States KC-135 A aircraft in Takhli, Thailand. KC-135 A aircraft and four F-105 D aircraft fly in formation. The aAircraft fly above fleecy clouds. A F-105 D aircraft is refueled from a KC- 135 A above it. The aircraft being refueled while in flight. Control panel of an aircraft.
United States F-105 D aircraft in Takhli, Thailand. An F-105 D aircraft is refueled from above by a KC-135 A aircraft while in flight. A pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft flies above fleecy clouds. F-105 is refueled with a hose from above.
Activities at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. United States Air Force and Thai personnel inside the control tower at the air force base. A Thai personnel looks through binoculars. A U.S. KC-135 A aircraft taxis past the control tower to a flight line parking. Men in the control tower speak over the phone. KC-135 A aircraft lined up in the background as vehicles move about on the base. The tail section of a KC-135 aircraft in the foreground. Other aircraft lined up in the background. Troops get off the KC-135 A aircraft and carry their baggage along.
Anti-war groups hold a moratorium march in Washington D.C., United States. Peace activists and peace demonstrators outside Department of Justice building in Washington D.C. A boy on a pedestal. Policemen lined up during the rally. A number of people on a platform as they take pictures. A girl sits on the pedestal. People outside an official building. People with banners bearing names around their neck. A banner reads 'Free all political prisoners'. People walk towards the U.S. Capitol.
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