Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted of draft evasion on 1967. He refused to be inducted into the US Armed Forces on ...

From the Beatles touching down in America and sending fans into a frenzy, to underdog Cassius Clay (soon to be known as ...

In 1968, the feds thought that the boxing champion—and future grill salesman—could be a potent weapon against the left.

Ali later shocked even more in 1967 by refusing to fight in the Vietnam War, saying, “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” The rematch was supposed to take place in Boston, at Boston ...

American Heavyweight boxer, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali, 1942 - 2016), making a fist as he lies on his hotel bed, London, 27th May 1963. ... Vietnam War draft refusal.

American Heavyweight boxer, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali, 1942 - 2016), making a fist as he lies on his hotel bed, London, 27th May 1963. ... Vietnam War draft refusal.

Ali, who was born Cassius Clay in 1942 and became Muhammad Ali after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, refused to be drafted into service during the Vietnam War, which effectively ended his ...

After declaring himself a conscientious objector and refusing to be drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in the Vietnam War, the Louisville boxer born Cassius Clay was stripped of his titles, tried ...

This was 1967, the era of the Vietnam War, racial tension, ... Likewise, Tom Wolfe, in his seminal 1963 Esquire article, palled around with Cassius Clay, not Muhammad Ali.