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.
An abandoned building and coal mine shaft near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Old shaft building. Coal conveyors seen above and on ground around the wooden structure.
View of building and the sign outside the Municipal Building, City of Gary, Indiana. A man leaves the building with some papers under his arm.
Film opens with hazy aerial views of Chicago Illinois. Scene shifts to views from vehicle driving on Chicago highway. A road sign reads "Des Plaines River Rd exits 1/2 mile ahead." A Boeing 727 commercial airliner is seen overhead with wheels down as it descends to land. Some 1960s cars drive past. 1961 Ford C-Series truck driving. View back, of the airliner descending above the highway, and of truck and cars passing the camera vehicle. Overhead highway road sign reads "Chicago Downtown 15 Miles." View of the Chicago skyline of buildings on Lake Michigan waterfront. View from slow moving aircraft of the Wrigley Building; the Michigan Avenue Bridge across the Chicago River; and the Tribune Tower. Camera continues to pan to East and then at the Kemper Building with "United Insurance" written near its top. Camera then swirls downward to river and bridges directly below and then back up from street and down again, ending on avenue near building displaying two American flags.
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