Card-Burner Gaoled
(N.Z. Press 4ssn.—Coparlflhtl NEW YORK, April 7. David Miller was carried bodily from a Federal courtroom today to begin a 2s-year gaol sentence for burning his draft card. Twenty-four-year-old Miller, father of an infant girl, was gaoled for refusing to obtain a new draft card to replace the one he burned as an act of protest against the Vietnam war.
Miller lay down on the floor of the courtroom when he was sentenced to gaol as a probation violator by Judge Harold Tyler. He turned down an offer by the Judge to put off his commitment in order to “spend a little time” with his family.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 9
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