<P> Protests bringing attention to `` the draft '' began on May 5 , 1965 . Student activists at the University of California , Berkeley marched on the Berkeley Draft board and forty students staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States . Another nineteen cards were burnt May 22 at a demonstration following the Berkeley teach - in . Draft card protests were not aimed so much at the draft as at the immoral conduct of the war . </P>
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Student activists at the University of California , Berkeley marched on the Berkeley Draft board and forty students staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States . Another nineteen cards were burnt May 22 at a demonstration following the Berkeley teach - in . Draft card protests were not aimed so much at the draft as at the immoral conduct of the war .