Fifty years ago – January 16, 1966 – Joan Baez was sentenced to ten days in jail for blocking the entrance of the Oakland Armed Forces Induction Center during an antiwar/draft resistor protest. Info courtesy the Peacebuttons.info Peace Calendar.
Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested by police and directed to a nearby police wagon during the sit-in demonstration in front of the Oakland Induction Center in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 16, 1967. Demonstrators blocked the building entrance in protest of the Vietnam war draft. (AP Photo)
