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The 1969 draft lottery determined who faced conscription during the unpopular Vietnam War
The Selective Service operated a multi-tier classification system during the Vietnam War that sorted registrants into categories ranging from "available for military service" to legally exempt or defe...
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...
The December 1, 1969 Selective Service draft lottery assigned a unique draft number (1–366) to each calendar date; the first date drawn, September 14, was assigned number 1 and the draws continued unt...
Donald Trump obtained four student deferments while in college and a subsequent medical deferment during the Vietnam-era draft process, a pattern documented across multiple contemporaneous records and...