BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT
On May 25, 1969, Linda Quint, now Emily L. Quint Freeman, with a number of others, broke into the South Side Chicago draft board office. dragging 40,000 files of draft-eligible young men into the street and destroying them by fire. She and two others walked away from their trial during a court recess and she spent the next 19 years underground. She has written a memoir, Failure to Appear, which traces her youth, development and maturity and addresses the complex of societal and personal factors that have accompanied her and shaped her in those intervening years.
