What led a group of nine ordinary Americans—including an artist, a nurse, and three clergymen—to seize several hundred draft records from a Selective Service office in Maryland and burn them in a nearby parking lot? Well, it was 1968 and many Americans had had enough of the Vietnam war. The nine Catholics, who came to be… Continue reading 50 years ago this month, the Catonsville 9 burned draft records in a suburban Baltimore parking lot.