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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 11:26 AM Jun 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on June 20, 1967

Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston, Texas, of violating the Selective Service law by refusing induction into the U.S. Army (during the Vietnam War)...The conviction, for which Ali was sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, was later overturned by the Supreme Court. http://bit.ly/122tBdD

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