![]() In the end, I am confident that justice will come my way, for the truth must eventually prevail.Īlready, by this point, Ali’s heavyweight title had been stripped, beginning a three-and-a-half-year exile. If justice prevails, if my constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. There is another alternative, and that alternative is justice. I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in this stand - either I go to jail or go to the Army. The ripples were enormous.Īli himself vowed to appeal the conviction, saying, People who had never thought about the war before began to think it through because of Ali. reverberated through the whole society… ou could hear people talking about it on street corners. soldiers were dying every day, and the war was costing $2 billion a month.Īnti-war sentiment was growing and it was thought that a stern rebuke of Ali would help put out the fire. At the time of Ali’s conviction, 1,000 Vietnamese noncombatants were being killed each week by U.S. The summer of 1967 marked a tipping point for public support of the Vietnam “police action.” While the Tet Offensive, which exposed the lie that the United States was winning the war, was still six months away, the news out of Southeast Asia was increasingly grim. Their fears of a rising movement against the war were well-founded. They also voted 385-19 to make it a federal crime to desecrate the flag. ![]() ![]() Congress voted 337-29 to extend the draft four more years. The sentence was unusually harsh and deeply tied to a Beltway, bipartisan consensus to crush Ali and ensure that he not develop into a symbol of anti-war resistance. The next day, this was the top-flap story for The New York Times with the headline, “ Clay Guilty in Draft Case Gets Five Years in Prison.” He also used his platform as boxing champion to connect the war abroad with the war at home, saying, “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?”įor these statements, as much as the act itself, Judge Joe Ingraham handed down the maximum sentence to Cassius Clay (as they insisted upon calling him in court): five-years in a federal penitentiary and a $10,000 fine. armed forces.Īli saw the war in Vietnam as an exercise in genocide. On June 20, 1967, the great Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston for refusing induction in the U.S. ![]() ![]() In an era defined by endless war, we should recognize a day in history that won’t be celebrated on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Baseball Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: Roster Cross Country: News Football Football: Schedule Football: Roster Football: News Tennis Tennis: Schedule Tennis: Roster Tennis: News Track and Field Track and Field Track and Field: Schedule Track and Field: Roster Track and Field: News Co-Ed Cheerleaders Co-Ed Cheerleaders: Schedule Co-Ed Cheerleaders: Roster Co-Ed Cheerleaders: News Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: Roster Cross Country: News Soccer Soccer: Schedule Soccer: Roster Soccer: News Softball Softball: Schedule Softball: Roster Softball: News Tennis Tennis: Schedule Tennis: Roster Tennis: News Track and Field Track and Field: Schedule Track and Field: Roster Track and Field: News Volleyball Volleyball: Schedule Volleyball: Roster Volleyball: News Athletic Communications Compliance & Student Academic Services Degree Completion Scholarship Fiscal Management Mission and Vision Statement NIL Sports Medicine Staff Directory Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) Impact Tickets Football Ticket Information ASU Foundation 1871 Club Braves Kids Club Donate to Champions Fund Drive For Athletics Prospective Student-Athlete Form Discover Alcorn All-Time Champions Athletic Policies Braves All-Access Story Archives WPRL 91.Muhammad Ali leaves the Federal Court Building after being convicted of refusing to be inducted into the military, June 20, 1967. ![]()
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