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The Camden 28

Release Date: Jul 27, 2007
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Runtime: 1 hr. 23 min.
Genres: Documentary
Director:Anthony Giacchino

Synopsis

Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino explores the remarkable story of 28 anti-war activists who protested the Vietnam War by conspiring to break into a draft-board office in Camden, NJ, and destroy government draft records identifying young men available for military service. On Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that 20 anti-war activists had been arrested in and around a Camden draft-board office. Just five days later, the indictment of those 20...more

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