High court backs ban on draft card burning 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 27 1968)


Video: 'U.S. v O'Brien'

(Monday, May 27, 1968, part of the Opposition to the Vietnam War) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. O’Brien, upheld today the conviction of David O’Brien for destroying his draft card outside a Boston courthouse on Mar. 31, 1966, ruling that the act was not protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech.