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Fred Chase

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Illinois
Support
Anti-War Chicago 15 Catholic Left
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Biography

One of the fifteen (age 25) who broke into the Chicago Selective Service office at 2355 W. 63rd Street and burned roughly 40,000 draft records on May 25, 1969, waiting at the scene to be arrested. He was indicted on the four federal counts; ten of the eleven tried were convicted in June 1970, with sentences up to two years.

Case

Charges: Destruction of government property, mutilation of records, interfering with the Selective Service System, and conspiracy (the May 25, 1969 Chicago draft-record burning).
Convicted: Most were convicted in June 1970.