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17 OF CAMDEN 28 FOUND NOT GUILTY – The New York Times

17 OF CAMDEN 28 FOUND NOT GUILTY – The New York Times

"CAMDEN, N. J., May 20β€”A jury of five men and seven women today found 17 members of the Camden 28 not guilty of breaking into the Federal Building here in [August 22] 1971 and destroying draft files, even though the defendants admitted having done so and 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents caught them at it."

"The verdict was the first total legal victory for the antiwar movement in five years of such draft‐record incidents."