Topics Gardner addresses: growing up in a Navy family, father a dentist in a uniform; as a child wanting to someday join the Navy; by end of high school he started shifting away from wanting a military role to wanting a role in diplomacy at the State Department; racism in Florida in 1960s; attending University of Virginia and getting involved in civil rights and anti-war movements; joining the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC); dropping out of UVa to join the civil rights movement full-time; his arrest for an act of civil disobedience in helping someone resist the draft; joining the National Student Association (NSA) after being released from jail and using it to organize "peace tours" to introduce students to the history of Vietnam and to provide draft counseling; his decision to apply to be a conscientious objector; the process of applying for and receiving CO status. The interview was originally recorded on an audiocassette, and it cuts abruptly at a transition point at 00:46:54 before continuing.
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