California Dreaming: The Hippie ‘Flower-Child’ Revolutionaries Who Protested The Vietnam War & Their Ties To The Military Intelligence Community Driving It. A Cautionary Tale.

Via Reborn

…The state also could have used the draft to silence its war critics. After all, there was a war going on, and hundreds of thousands of young men were being sent to Vietnam. However, none of the Laurel Canyon stars had their careers interrupted by the Vietnam War. The tricks used unsuccessfully by thousands of young men across the country to avoid the draft always seemed to work for the Laurel Canyon crowd.

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During the first week of August 1964, warships under the command of U.S. Adm. George Stephen Morrison allegedly came under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This attack was later called the Tonkin Gulf Incident. Although *this attack probably never took place, it was used as an excuse to start the Vietnam War.[1

* The consensus of my readings reveal that the first did take place but not the second.