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Vietnam draft pardon
In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.
It meant that people who had fled the USA to avoid serving as soldiers in Vietnam no longer faced jail.
Michael Hendricks had gone to Montreal in Canada.
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