Where can the full table of 1969 draft lottery date-to-number assignments be accessed online?
Executive summary
The complete 1969 draft-lottery date-to-number table is available online from multiple primary and secondary sources, most authoritatively on the Selective Service System’s Vietnam Lotteries page, with accessible reproductions and datasets hosted by archival and data sites such as RandomServices and Wikisource [1] [2] [3]. Histories and analyses that reproduce the full table or its data — including museum writeups, news retrospectives and data-visualization projects — provide alternative formats and context for interpreting the same official results [4] [5] [6].
1. The official source: Selective Service posts the Vietnam lotteries (and the 1969 table)
The Selective Service System maintains a historical page titled “Vietnam Lotteries” that documents the December 1, 1969 drawing and explains how to read the tables showing birth dates and assigned lottery numbers; that page reproduces the tables used to determine order of call for 1970 and is the primary government-hosted online location for the full 1969 date-to-number assignments [1].
2. Immediate reproductions and plain-data mirrors: RandomServices and Wikisource
For researchers who want the table in machine-friendly or plain-text form, RandomServices hosts a clear data table of the draft lotteries (including N69 for the 1969 drawing), listing month/day pairs and their assigned lottery numbers and noting the highest numbers called that year, while Wikisource also carries a transcription of the 1969 results useful for citation or quick lookup [2] [3].
3. Museum, news and analytic retellings that reproduce the table and its highlights
Historical overviews such as the Mid American Veterans Museum and news retrospectives (CBS, HistoryNet) recount the drawing’s sequence — e.g., that September 14 was drawn first and assigned number 1 — and reproduce or link to the full board results for readers who want the table in a narrative or illustrated format [4] [5] [7].
4. Data analysis and critiques that rely on the full table
Statistical analyses and visualization projects that probed fairness or clustering (for example, phData’s Tableau analysis and O’Reilly’s analytics chapter) draw directly on the complete 1969 assignment table; those projects point users back to the same official table or to downloadable datasets when they compute month-by-month averages or simulate permutations to test randomness [6] [8].
5. Cross-checking, discrepancies and best-practice for citation
Because multiple secondary sites reformat or republish the results, best practice is to cite the Selective Service’s official “Vietnam Lotteries” page when asserting the authoritative assignments and use RandomServices or Wikisource when a researcher needs a downloadable or plaintext version; historians note that although the table is widely reproduced, early critiques about nonrandom clustering stem from analyses of that very official table, so consult both the government page and analytic reproductions for context [1] [2] [6].