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The Vietnam-era draft lottery and its fairness, including the use of a physical lottery system and subsequent analyses that raised doubts about its impartiality.
The December 1, 1969 draft lottery replaced the previous “draft the oldest man first” administrative order with a date-of-birth lottery to determine the order of induction for men born 1944–1950, ther...
The draft lottery replaced a “channeling” system of that had systematically insulated better‑educated and more affluent young men from frontline service, introducing a birth‑date lottery intended to r...
The 1969 draft lottery replaced the old "oldest-man-first" conscription rule with a randomized, birth‑date lottery that determined the order of call for men born between January 1, 1944 and December 3...
The Selective Service replaced the “oldest-first” call-up with a birthdate lottery beginning December 1, 1969, using 366 capsules drawn from a drum to assign order numbers; the 1969 drawing was later ...
The 1969 draft lottery assigned every birth date a number from 1 to 366 by drawing blue plastic capsules containing calendar dates; lower numbers meant earlier “order of call” for men born 1944–1950 a...