Three Catholic priests, a nurse, an artist, and four others burned hundreds of selective service records at a Maryland draft board office in 1968, sparking a protest against the Vietnam War.
Investigation of a Flame
In 1968, a group of eight individuals, including priests, a nurse, and an artist, made headlines by infiltrating a Catonsville, Maryland draft board and incinerating hundreds of selective service records with homemade napalm to protest the war.
