The Silver Spring Three refers to a Vietnam War era anti-draft action.
On May 21, 1969, three young men walked into a Silver Spring, Maryland Selective Service office where they destroyed several hundred draft records to protest the war.
At the time of the raid Les Bayless was out on bail for draft resistance.
His trial was presided over by Judge Roszel Cathcart Thomsen (of the Catonsville Nine trial), who gave him a three-year sentence on top of his five-year sentence for draft evasion.
Michael Bransome was sentenced to three years in federal prison, spent eight months when prior to a furlough to his home in D.C. he received a death threat from two violent inmates and fled to Canada in 1970.