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Today's Morning Edition music is from "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. 

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the real-life incident that inspired the song, Guthrie is on a tour that comes to the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium at St. Catherine University on Sunday. 

The 18-minute song tells the story of how he got out of being drafted during the Vietnam War because of a conviction for littering. 

The littering charge came after Guthrie and a friend tried to unload a half-ton of garbage in a municipal dump on Thanksgiving Day in 1965.

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The littering charge came after Guthrie and a friend tried to unload a half-ton of garbage in a municipal dump on Thanksgiving Day in 1965.


Today's Morning Edition music is from "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the true incident which inspired the song, Guthrie is on a tour which comes to the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium at St. Katherine's University on Sunday. The 18-minute song tells the story of how he got out of being drafted during the Vietnam War because of a conviction for littering.  The littering charge came after Guthrie and a friend tried to unload a half ton of garbage in a municipal dump on Thanksgiving Day, 1965.

Littering conviction got Arlo Guthrie out of war draft

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