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title: Selective Service draft lottery drawing (Washington, 1 December 1969)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/selective-service-draft-lottery-1969/
description: On 1 December 1969 the Selective Service System drew birth dates from 365 capsules to set the order in which men would be called.
section: Collection
---

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[![Selective Service draft lottery drawing, 1969 US photograph: On 1 December 1969 the Selective Service System held the draft](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/selective-service-draft-lottery-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/selective-service-draft-lottery-1969.jpg)

# Selective Service draft lottery drawing (Washington, 1 December 1969)

On 1 December 1969 the Selective Service System held the draft lottery its 2009 annual report describes: 365 capsules, one for each birth date. Its teachers guide says that lottery set the order in which men would be called, and the Library of Congress names Representative Alexander Pirnie at the bowl and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey beside him.

## Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SELECTIVE SERVICE
1970
```

The year line on the sign reads as 1970. Capsule numbers are not transcribed.

[← "Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-freiheit-und-unabhaengigkeit-fuer-vietnam-appeal-1969/) [Thư xuân gửi các bạn cán binh bên kia chiến tuyến (Spring letter to the cadres and soldiers on the other side of the front line), Colonel Lê Trí Tín, Quang Nam →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-tri-tin-quang-nam-tet-letter-1970/)

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