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Title
Hugh Everett letter to the Selective Service Board No. 54 1956-7
Creator
Everett, Hugh
Date Created and/or Issued
1957-07-22
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information
Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description
Scope/Content: In 1956 and 1957, Hugh Everett III and two of his superiors at the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group wrote to Everett's Selective Service Board to argue that his work for the Pentagon justified a draft exemption. The letter describes the nature of Everett's contributions to the military.
Scope/Content: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8w951228
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1210
Language
English
eng
Subject
Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
Relation
Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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