Today in History revisits the Saturday, October 21, 1967 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on a discussion on the draft law, led by Rev. Robert Branconnier at the University of North Dakota. The event explored creating a "reading room" for youths to discuss their military service obligations. Counseling would be offered on issues like conscientious objector status. Future sessions were scheduled.
Twenty - two persons, including a "middle-aged man" and two girls, attended a discussion session Friday night, Oct. 20, 1967, on the draft law conducted by Rev. Robert Branconnier, chaplain of the Newman Foundation at the University of North Dakota.
The discussion centered around establishment of some place "in the form of a reading room," where youths subject to the draft