I am curious why this person would write this letter to the NY state Draft board from CA. Wouldnt his local Draft Board notify him? What reson would he have to write to a draft board all the way across the country? Some connection to that state?? Maybe he was from there, but had come out to CA, and his draft notice was forwarded to him in CA? We have seen some connections to Albany in the Z case obviously. For any men here in their 60’s, what was the procedure back then for draft? Would you expect to get a draft notice in CA from the NY State Draft board?

At this link- http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/cms/lib/MN … eading.pdf
it mentions that "local draft boards were made up of various community members, usually with political ties to the community. Local draft boards held the fate of potential draftees in their hands, they decided who went to Vietnam in the end".
So again, how is a guy in CA getting a draft notice from somebody in NY state?

It looks like the person who wrote the letter did give his name, it’s been redacted. He also gave his selective service number which would have identified him. My feeling is that the guy wrote the letter to try to exempt himself from the service by saying he took drugs and was still tripping after six days. And he wrote a bunch of other stuff just to sound like he was crazy. Probably setting himself up to be classified 4F. He may have been from NY and going to college in CA and his mail was forwarded.

Zodiac never gave his name or anything close to it.

It looks like the person who wrote the letter did give his name, it’s been redacted. He also gave his selective service number which would have identified him. My feeling is that the guy wrote the letter to try to exempt himself from the service by saying he took drugs and was still tripping after six days. And he wrote a bunch of other stuff just to sound like he was crazy. Probably setting himself up to be classified 4F. He may have been from NY and going to college in CA and his mail was forwarded.

Zodiac never gave his name or anything close to it.

While you may certainly be right, I am wondering if he gave his real name & number, and either way, how/why his letter got into the Zodiac file. I agree, if he really put his real name and selective svc#, he would certainly be identifed. Another scenario, maybe back in 68, he did really write the letter to the draft board to get out of the draft, but later on, he became a Z suspect and they pulled this old letter for his writing.

It may be that any letters that were hand written particularly with drawings became suspect and that is why this group of letters were checked. These letters were not checked until April 1970, so they were not suspected immediately. It says that SF requested the comparison so the SF FBI office or SFPD must have been sent the letters from back east and probably had an eye on the guy. If he really wasn’t who he said he was in the letters SF may not have been given the letters.

Yes, Zodiac could have used someone else’s name, address and selective service number but to have all that information on someone probably meant you knew them. Sooner or later a connection would be made between the person the letters were supposedly written by and Zodiac.

It looks like a letter of someone who is trying to get out of going to Vietnam. !968 was a bad year in Vietnam. I wouldn’t blame the writer if this was an attempt to get out of service. How did you find this writing?

can that draft board number be checked out?

I tried to find if it was listed online and couldn’t find anything. The number is 30 58 47 678. Does anyone recall what the different sets of numbers relate to? The second set, 58, is the same as the Draft Board number that the person wrote to. I imagine there is some method as to how the numbers were distributed.

Who ever this person is he was not well, that is for sure. The wording is nothing like the Zodiac’s, there are a few letters that are like his, but many more that are not. Acid might make him write another way , I have no idea ? But certain words that are so much a part of his personality are missing in these letters. His d is not slanted and most of them were in 1969 -78 , the large loop on his y’s are nothing like Z’s, but indicates a huge ego like I believe Z has. Zodiac has a odd way of spacing his letters in most all of his letters,this is something else that is missing . If Z was about 30 in 1969 why would he be writing to a draft board in 1968 ? The typewriter that was used , was it anything like the one Zodiac used ? Zodiac was a much better artist and would have drawn the picture better. The idea that he had headaches is something that the caller had mentioned on the Jim Dunbar TV show.

I tried to find if it was listed online and couldn’t find anything. The number is 30 58 47 678. Does anyone recall what the different sets of numbers relate to? The second set, 58, is the same as the Draft Board number that the person wrote to. I imagine there is some method as to how the numbers were distributed.

Its not enough to be a phone number, but it is enough for a SS number. 305 is Indiana

We know what kind of number it is, Sandy. It’s a selective service number.

"To obtain a copy of a WWII though Vietnam era (men born April 28, 1877 to March 28, 1957), Selective Service Record, please mail a Selective Service Request Form to:

National Archives & Records Administration
ATTN: Archival Programs
P.O. Box 38757
St. Louis, MO 63138"

here- http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/archiv … rvice.html

I dont think the number alone will get us anyplace

There are multiple sites to look up the Selective svc# but you need more info- here are examples (the stuff we need, is the stuff we are looking for)
https://www.sss.gov/regver/wfverification.aspx
http://www.vkblaw.com/sss/verify.htm

Yeah, we want to do a reverse look-up!!! I am not certain if your selective service number became your military ID number if you were inducted. Anyone know?

I tried to find if it was listed online and couldn’t find anything. The number is 30 58 47 678. Does anyone recall what the different sets of numbers relate to? The second set, 58, is the same as the Draft Board number that the person wrote to. I imagine there is some method as to how the numbers were distributed.

I misunderstood, when I read your post I thought you were asking for any ideas as to what the numbers could be ?

The first number is the state that they are registered in, 30 is NY. The second number is the number of their local board in their state. The third number is their year of birth, this guy’s birth year was 1947.