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American protest singer and songwriter (1940-1976)
The supplied reporting shows that many high-profile 1960s–70s musicians used their platform to protest the draft and the Vietnam War—artists such as Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger, Phil ...
Several well-known 1960s–70s musicians used legally recognized deferments — most commonly student status, medical disqualifications, or National Guard/Reserve enlistments — to avoid Vietnam combat; th...
A substantial body of Vietnam-era songs explicitly attacked class and draft inequities: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” became the archetype of class-based draft criticism , while folk ...
A number of well‑known figures from the 1960s and 1970s are widely identified with , including , , , and several later politicians whose ‑era service records have been scrutinized; the means ranged fr...
Many well‑known musicians avoided or delayed Vietnam service by using the same deferments available to millions of young men—chiefly student deferments, medical classifications and other legal exempti...