It is ironic that in Minnesota the least successful of such actions - that of the Minnesota Eight - is the best remembered. One of them was destruction of files in the offices of the Selective Service system (a draft eligibility agency). Resistance to the war in Vietnam, in Minnesota and elsewhere, took many forms. They became known as the Minnesota Eight. Eight of them were arrested and charged with federal crimes. Around midnight on July 10, 1970, four teams of two or three people each broke into Selective Service offices in Little Falls, Alexandria, Winona, and Wabasha, intending to destroy as many military draft files as possible - acts of protest against the war in Vietnam.
0 kommentar(er)
