Issue before Supreme Court Started Here- A draft card burning case now at issue before Supreme Court started with David P. O'Brien of Framingham, Mass., now 21, second from left in this photo made on steps of court house in Boston in March, 1996. The American Civil Liberties Union argued yesterday before court in case of O'Brien that draft-card burning was "symbolic speech" protected by Constitution. Others in photo (l. to r.) David A. Reed, then 19, Voluntown, Conn; O'Brien, David Benson, then 18, Morgantown, W.Va., and John A. Phillips, then 22, Boston ,Youths were later beaten up by toughs on courthouse steps.

Associated Press · [ca. January 1968]

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