Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
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Seeking Sanctuary: Draft Dodgers
Twenty-two TV and radio segments from CBC Archives.
Added: Sept 2014
Tags: archive | audio | video
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Seeking Sanctuary: Draft Dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/topic/seeking-sanctuary-draft-dodgers
https://web.archive.org/web/20170505143524/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/topic/seeking-sanctuary-draft-dodgers
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Statue honouring draft dodgers stirs debate in B.C.
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-statute-of-limitations
https://web.archive.org/web/20170501182904/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-statute-of-limitations
Medium: Television
Program: The National Magazine
Broadcast Date: Dec. 1, 2004
Guest(s): Dave Elliott, Ian Mason, Jeff Mock, Irene Mock, Isaac Romano
Host: Peter Mansbridge
Reporter: Mark Kelley
Duration: 8:56
The life of Jack Todd: A Vietnam war resister remembers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-life-of-jack-todd-a-resister-remembers
https://web.archive.org/web/20170501182917/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-life-of-jack-todd-a-resister-remembers
Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: April 28, 2000
Guests: Morton Bain, Jack Todd
Host: Ben Chin
Reporter: Kelly Crowe
Duration: 3:09
Did draft dodgers make a difference in Canada?
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-america-love-it-or-leave-it
Medium: Radio
Program: Prime Time
Broadcast Date: June 6, 1990
Guest(s): Kirwan Cox, Tom Shandell
Host: Geoff Pevere
Duration: 12:26
Draft dodgers: Torn between two countries
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-torn-between-two-countries
Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: May 2, 1985
Guests: Charlie Diamond, Roy Pearson, Charlie Stimach
Reporter: Dan Bjarnason
Duration: 2:39
Draft dodger born in America, devoted to Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/all-american-son-one-family-in-two-countries
Medium: Television
Program: The Journal
Broadcast Date: April 30, 1985
Guest: Gary Paulson
Reporter: John Harvard
Duration: 10:25
Draft dodgers fight to return home at conference for Vietnam deserters
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-amnesty-conference-for-vietnam-deserters
Medium: Television
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: Jan. 29, 1977
Reporter: Maria Mironowicz
Duration: 1:55
U.S. president Jimmy Carter grants amnesty to some draft dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/amnesty-but-not-for-all
Medium: Radio
Program: As It Happens
Broadcast Date: Jan. 21, 1977
Guest: Jack Calhoun
Host: Alan Maitland
Interviewer: Barbara Frum
Duration: 4:57
Americans against the draft dodger amnesty
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/americans-against-the-draft-dodger-amnesty
Medium: Radio
Program: As It Happens
Broadcast Date: Jan. 18, 1977
Guest: Orson Swindle
Host: Alan Maitland
Interviewer: Barbara Frum
Duration: 5:48
Draft dodgers on becoming Canadian
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-becoming-canadian
Medium: Television
Program: Weekend
Broadcast Date: Jan. 7, 1973
Host: Jim Eayrs
Interviewer: Charlotte Gobeil
Duration: 11:41
Destination Vancouver: Draft dodgers head north
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/destination-vancouver-draft-dodgers-head-north
Medium: Radio
Program: Rule and Revolution
Broadcast Date: Dec. 16, 1970
Host: Barbara Frum
Reporter: Fred Cawsey
Duration: 26:29
How to desert the U.S. Army in three steps
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-how-to-desert-the-us-army-in-three-steps
Medium: Radio
Program: The Action Set
Broadcast Date: Feb. 21, 1970
Guest(s): William Spira
Duration: 8:31
Defending draft dodger George Kaputo
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/defending-george-kaputo
Medium: Television
Program: Weekend
Broadcast Date: Nov. 2, 1969
Reporter: Trina Janitch
Duration: 13:04
Living in fear: draft dodgers in hiding
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/living-in-fear-draft-dodgers-in-hiding
Medium: Television
Program: The Public Eye
Broadcast Date: May 7, 1969
Guest(s): William Spira
Duration: 5:54
Safe haven or closed door for draft dodgers?
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-safe-haven-or-closed-door
Medium: Radio
Program: Sunday Morning Magazine
Broadcast Date: May 4, 1969
Guest(s): Gerald Baldwin, Barney Danson, Albert Douglas,
Allan MacEachen, William Spira
Host: Bill Paul, Bruce Rogers
Reporter: Colin Godbold
Duration: 12:02
Pierre Trudeau opens the door to draft dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/trudeau-opens-the-door-to-draft-dodgers
Medium: Television
Program: CBC Television News Special
Broadcast Date: March 25, 1969
Duration: 3:29
Americans come north to avoid service in Vietnam
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/americans-come-north-to-avoid-service-in-vietnam
Medium: Radio
Program: Sunday Supplement
Broadcast Date: March 16, 1969
Reporter: Douglas Fetherling
Duration: 5:13
Photo: Bruno Massenet, National Archives of Canada (PA 153762)
A warm welcome for draft dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/a-warm-welcome-for-draft-dodgers
Medium: Radio
Program: Sunday Supplement
Broadcast Date: March 16, 1969
Reporter: Douglas Fetherling
Duration: 5:35
Sammy Davis Jr. talks to draft dodgers in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/sammy-davis-jr-talks-to-draft-dodgers-in-canada
Medium: Television
Program: The Way It Is
Broadcast Date: March 17, 1968
Guests: Dominic Covey, Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Friotte
Host: Warren Davis, John Saywell
Interviewer: Sylvia Fraser, Barbara Frum
Duration: 10:03
Send draft dodgers back to America, says columnist
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-back-to-america
Medium: Radio
Program: Assignment
Broadcast Date: Nov. 3, 1967
Guest(s):
Commentator: Herb Gott
Duration: 4:14
Anti-Vietnam war movement rises in Canada and U.S.
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/draft-dodgers-the-anti-vietnam-war-movement-rises-in-canada-and-the-us
Medium: Television
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: Oct. 23, 1967
Guest: Abraham Feinberg
Reporter: Bruce Rogers
Duration: 3:35
The United Church of Canada and Vietnam war draft dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-united-church-of-canada-and-vietnam-draft-dodgers
Medium: Television
Program: The Day It Is
Broadcast Date: Oct. 17, 1967
Host: Warren Davis
Guests: E.M. Howse, Bob Lindsey, L.T. Tarr, Gregory Baum, Berkeley Reynolds,
W.F. Wilkie, Michael Stroh, Raymond Hord, Al Forrest
Duration: 18:36
Safe haven in Toronto for draft dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/safe-haven-in-toronto-for-draft-dodgers
Medium: Television
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: May 10, 1966
Guest(s): Tom Hathaway, Doug Ward
Reporter: Larry Bondy
Duration: 2:49
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