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- ↑ "3 Ransack Draft Board Office," The Washington Post, May 22, 1969: D1.
- ↑ "3 Invade Draft Board Office At Silver Spring, Ruin Files," The Washington Post, May 22, 1969: C22.
- ↑ http://pardonmeblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/exiled-american-refused-pardon.html