On this day in 1969, a draft lottery - We Are The Mighty

366 blue plastic capsules contained the birthdays that would be chosen in the first Vietnam draft lottery drawing on December 1, 1969 The

Draft lottery Draft lotteries were conducted again from 1971 to 1975 The birth year of 1952 was the last draftees, with

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1969 draft lottery To celebrate Ken Burns' 2017 documentary, The Vietnam War, PBS and USA Today created a Vietnam War Draft Lottery calculator