President Jimmy Carter Issues Proclamation 4483 and Executive Order 11967, granting a pardon to those who evaded the draft in the Vietnam War by violating the Military Selective Service Act from August 4, 1964, to March 28, 1973.
It is estimated that the Pardon applied to over 500,000 people, of which 100,000 had left the country. About half of those who left returned. More