Some prominent figures of the Vietnam era, and what happened to them:
MUHAMMAD ALI: Heavyweight boxing champion, convicted in 1967 of refusing induction into the Army ("I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong"); retired, suffering from Parkinson's syndrome.
JOAN BAEZ: Folk singer and anti-war activist; climbed redwood last year to sing to anti-logging campaigner living there.
PHILIP AND DANIEL BERRIGAN: Radical priests involved in burning draft records; still active in anti-war causes; Philip, convicted in 1997 of vandalizing the destroyer USS The Sullivans, has left the priesthood.
WILLIAM CALLEY: Commanding officer at My Lai massacre in 1968; now a jeweler in Columbus, Ga.
WALTER CRONKITE: CBS newsman whose report on Vietnam in 1968 helped turn American opinion against war; retired as anchorman in 1981, still takes on special TV projects.
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Researcher who leaked the Pentagon Papers; activist against nuclear proliferation, living in Washington.
JANE FONDA: Actress and anti-war activist, branded "Hanoi Jane" by critics for visiting North Vietnam in 1972; separated from media magnate Ted Turner after eight-year marriage; last reported to be embracing evangelical Christianity.
DAVID HARRIS: Former husband of Baez, jailed in 1969 for refusing induction; writer in Mill Valley, Calif.
TOM HAYDEN: Co-founder, Students for a Democratic Society, one of the so-called Chicago Seven tried for trashing the 1968 Democratic Party convention; former husband of Jane Fonda; retiring this year as a California state senator.
ABBIE HOFFMAN: Chicago Seven member; went underground for nearly seven years to avoid drug charges, committed suicide in 1989 at age 52.
JULIUS HOFFMAN: Judge, Chicago Seven trial; died in 1983 at age 87.
EARTHA KITT: Singer, attacked Vietnam War in front of Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, at White House luncheon in 1968; now on Broadway in "The Wild Party."
EUGENE McCARTHY: Minnesota senator who ran for president on a peace platform in 1968; has written poetry; speaks out against campaign spending limits; lives in Washington.
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD: Singer-songwriter best known for the "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" and FISH cheer at Woodstock; still singing, campaigning for veterans; a scholar on Florence Nightingale.
ROBERT McNAMARA: Secretary of defense in Kennedy administration; retired in 1981 as head of World Bank; serves on corporate boards; wrote 1995 book acknowledging that Vietnam War was a mistake.
GEORGE McGOVERN: anti-war senator from South Dakota, 1972 Democratic candidate for president; now U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
JERRY RUBIN: Chicago Seven member; later a business entrepreneur, fatally injured while jaywalking in Los Angeles in 1994.
BENJAMIN SPOCK: Famed pediatrician, convicted in 1968 of "conspiracy to aid, counsel, and abet" young men to violate the draft laws; conviction overturned on appeal; ran for president in 1972 and got more than 75,000 votes; died in 1998 at age 94.
MARK RUDD: Leader of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University; now a teacher at Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute in New Mexico.
MAXWELL TAYLOR: General, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1962-64, then ambassador to South Vietnam; died in 1987 at age 85.
MARY ANN VECCHIO: Teenage runaway whose picture, kneeling over one of the victims at Kent State, was one of the era's most enduring images; works as a slot change attendant at a Las Vegas casino.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND: Commander, American forces in Vietnam, 1964-68; retired, living in Charleston, S.C.
ELMO ZUMWALT: Commander of Navy forces, 1968 to 1970; later said he believed the defoliant Agent Orange, dropped on Vietnam at his orders, led to the fatal illness of his son who was serving there. He died Jan. 2 at age 79.