The Selective Service System (SSS) holds a draft lottery in 1969. The Lottery selection system chooses soldiers for induction into the Vietnam War. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee participate in the draft, choosing birth dates from a glass bowl. The dates are read aloud and posted on the draft board. One young man protests the Vietnam War by flashing a Peace sign with his fingers every time he chooses a draft number.
Lottery selection held in full view of public for selecting potential soldiers for Vietnam. Youth who are part of an advisory committee for the Selective Service draw birth dates. The birth dates are read allowed and then matched with a number on the draft lottery board. (Vietnam War period).
Larry McKibben, Iowa representative for the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee, interrupts the December 1969 draft lottery to read a statement. He claims his statement is written by 14 youth members protesting the removal of the Michigan and Alaska youth delegates after their refusal to draw birth dates for the lottery. The draft lottery continues after the statement is read.
The Selective Service System (SSS) in United States, its functioning and effects. Lottery selection held in full view of public for selecting potential soldiers for war. The draft lottery is concluded with Selective Service youth members drawing letters to complete the alphabet sequence, a subset of the randomn selection sequence associated with the draft lottery. The alphabet sequence matches the first letter of the last name of draft candidates against a number. The draft lottery is held at the Selective Service office in Washington DC by director General Lewis B. Hershey and others.
Launching and commissioning of United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) at a harbor in Philadelphia Naval Yard, Philadelphia. Terrier missiles in launcher in catwalk area. The flight deck of the ship at pier. People board ship. United States Navy officers and sailors and dignitaries assembled in hanger for commissioning ceremony. Flags and sign board of 'USS Kitty Hawk CVA-63'. Admiral Arleigh Burke and other officers on speaker's stand. An officer addresses the assembly.
Piles of coal used to fire the furnaces of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company Plant, alongside the Ohio River in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States.
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