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Les Bayless

AKA: Leslie Bayless
Released
Date of birth:1947
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Maryland
Time Imprisoned:
4 Years
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Les Bayless

Biography

A young layperson (age 22) living at the 'Blair House' commune near the draft board, Les Bayless was one of three men who on May 21, 1969 walked into the Silver Spring, Maryland Selective Service office and destroyed several hundred draft records with blood and black paint, then waited for the FBI. Already out on bail for draft resistance, he received a 5-year sentence for draft evasion plus an additional 3-year sentence (from Judge Roszel C. Thomsen) for the draft-board action. He was later interviewed for the 2013 documentary 'Hit & Stay.'

Case

Charges: Destruction of Selective Service records (the May 21, 1969 Silver Spring, MD draft-board raid).
Arrested: May 21, 1969
Sentenced: Feb 16, 1970
Incarcerated: May 21, 1969
Released: 1973
Sentence: Three years in federal prison for destroying Selective Service records, additional to a separate five-year draft-resistance sentence.
Convicted: Yes