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Biographical File 1901-1984

Scope and Contents note

Personal documents, biographical data, and printed matter relating to Arnold Ellsworth True.
box 1, folder 1

Biographical data 1901-1973

Scope and Contents note

Birth certificate and biographical sketches.
box 1, folder 2

Obituaries 1979-1980

box 1, folder 3

Memorial service notes 1979

box 1, folder 4

Biography, Arnold Ellsworth True: Destroyer Captain, Maverick Admiral, by Norman W. Shaw 1980

Scope and Contents note

Drafts, finished typescript, and printed copy.
box 1, folder 5

Family 1941-1974

Scope and Contents note

Clippings and miscellany relating to family members.
 

General 1925-1984

Scope and Contents note

Clippings, printed articles, certificates, notes, schedules, and miscellany relating to True or referring to him. Includes announcements and programs of events at which he was a speaker or which he attended.
box 1, folder 6

1925-1947

box 1, folder 7

1952-1958

box 1, folder 8

1961-1966

box 1, folder 9

1967 February-September

box 1, folder 10

1967 October-November

box 2, folder 1

1967 December

box 2, folder 2

1968 January-February

Scope and Contents note

Includes U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Gulf of Tonkin incident.
box 2, folder 3

1968 March-May

box 2, folder 4

1968 June-October

box 2, folder 5

1969 January-June

box 2, folder 6

1969 July-December

box 3, folder 1

1970

box 3, folder 2

1971

box 3, folder 3

1972

box 3, folder 4

1973

box 3, folder 5

1974

box 3, folder 6

1975

Scope and Contents note

Includes World Citizens Assembly proceedings.
box 3, folder 7

1976-1977

box 3, folder 8

1978-1979

box 3, folder 9

1980-1984

Scope and Contents note

Posthumous references.
box 3, folder 10

Undated

 

Chronological File 1932-1987

Scope and Contents note

Compilation of photocopies of significant letters, writings, other documents, clippings, and photographs from the papers of Arnold Ellsworth True, arranged chronologically.
box 3, folder 11-12

Bound copies 1932-1967

box 4, folder 1-2

Expanded unbound copy 1932-1987

 

United States Navy File 1938-1976

Scope and Contents note

Citations, awards, correspondence, and miscellany documenting the active duty U.S. Navy service of Arnold Ellsworth True and his official dealings with the Navy after retirement. See also: Declassified U.S. Government Records.
box 4, folder 3

Citations and awards 1938-1946

Scope and Contents note

Includes U.S. Naval Academy Bachelor of Science certificate; Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Commendation Ribbon, and Bronze Star awards; and certificate of retirement.
box 4, folder 4

Active duty correspondence 1942-1946

Scope and Contents note

Official correspondence and personnel records.
box 4, folder 5

Correspondence with families of shipmates killed in action 1942-1943

box 4, folder 6

Miscellany 1939-1945

Scope and Contents note

Includes ship's newspapers, humorous writings, and histories of U.S.S. Morris and U.S.S. Mustin, ships under True's command.
box 4, folder 7

Retirement correspondence 1952-1976

Scope and Contents note

Official correspondence with the Department of the Navy. Unofficial correspondence with naval acquaintances can be found in the Correspondence series.
box 4, folder 8

Speech ban controversy 1966-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memorandum, Department of Defense directives, and clippings relating to Department of the Navy effort to prevent True from speaking on foreign policy issues.
 

San Jose State College File 1953-1968

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, and miscellany documenting the San Jose State College service of Arnold Ellsworth True.
box 5, folder 1

Correspondence 1953-1976

Scope and Contents note

Official college correspondence. Unofficial correspondence with colleagues can be found in the Correspondence series.
box 5, folder 2

Meteorology program curricula for Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees 1959-1962

box 5, folder 3

Professors on the Right controversy 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

Memoranda and clippings relating to an academic freedom issue dispute with self-described Professors on the Right on the college campus.
box 5, folder 4

Retirement notice and service award 1968

box 5, folder 5

Miscellany 1967

Scope and Contents note

College publications and speech.
 

Speeches and Writings 1932-1979

Scope and Contents note

Speeches and writings by Arnold Ellsworth True.
box 5, folder 6

"The Structure of Tropical Cyclones," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 1937 March

Scope and Contents note

Printed Spanish translation in Boletín del Observatorio Nacional (Cuba).
box 5, folder 7

"The Other War," Common Sense 1943 May

Scope and Contents note

Printed and typed copies. Published under pseudonym Commander.
box 5, folder 8

"The Weather Man Sets D-Day," speech, Engineers' Club, San Francisco, California 1944 May 11

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 9

"A Mathematical Interpretation of a Theory of the Universe," 1944 November

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 10

Speech to graduating class, U.S. Navy Technical School, Treasure Island, California 1944

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 11

"Ends and Means: A Meditation," circa 1946

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 12

"A Working Hypothesis," 1946

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 13

"Statement on Universal Military Training," 1951

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 14

"The Junto Club," speech to graduating class, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 1953 January 23

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 15

"New Frontiers," speech to graduating class, Monterey Peninsula College 1953 June 13

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and mimeograph.
box 5, folder 16

"World Peace," speech to graduating class, Pescadero Union High School 1957 June 6

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 17

"The Wisdom of Insecurity," speech to graduating class, Pescadero Union High School 1961 June 15

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph.
box 5, folder 18

"Secret Dispatches of a Russian Diplomat" (satirical essay) 1962 February 21

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and mimeograph.
box 5, folder 19

Perspective television program on meteorology (San Jose State College television series) 1963 April 20-27

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed transcripts.
box 5, folder 20

"Economic Effects of Disarmament," 1965 March

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 21

"Who's Gullible?," 1965 May

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph.
box 5, folder 22

"Vietnam," speech, San Jose, California 1965 October 16

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 23

"Manipulation," 1965

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 5, folder 24

"The Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 2, 1964," 1966 March

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and mimeograph.
box 5, folder 25

"Statement on Asian Policy and the Vietnam War," 1966 April 18

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph and printed copy ( U.S. Farm News, 1967 June).
box 5, folder 26

"Washington Visitation, April 18-30, 1966," circa 1966 April

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph. Account of American Friends Service Committee meeting with Congressmen in Washington, D.C.
box 5, folder 27

"Vietnam: Voices and Actions of Our Community," 1966 December

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph.
box 5, folder 28

"If the Vietnam War Escalates into China: The Military Problems, Risks and Prospects" (contribution to symposium), Minority of One 1967 January

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy.
box 5, folder 29

Speech, Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace national meeting, Washington, D.C. 1967 September 27

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy.
box 5, folder 30

"Can We Win in Vietnam? Veterans Stars and Stripes for Peace," 1967 October

Scope and Contents note

Typescript, printed copy, and U.S. Farm News reprint (1967 November).
box 6, folder 1

"Vietnam: Dead End in Asia," 1967 October

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph and printed copy inserted by Senator Vance Hartke in Congressional Record (1967 October 20).
box 6, folder 2

"If We Had Permitted the Geneva Accords to Become Effective," Grass Roots Forum 1967 December 30

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy.
box 6, folder 3

"An Admiral Speaks on Vietnam: Civilization Depends on Co-existence and Cooperation," Churchman 1968 March

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy.
box 6, folder 4

Message to Eugene McCarthy campaign headquarters 1968 March

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 6, folder 5

"The Gulf of Tonkin Incidents," 1968 March

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy of correspondence with J. William Fulbright inserted by Fulbright in the Congressional Record (1968 March 27).
box 6, folder 6

"An Honorable Peace," Grass Roots Forum 1968 August 17

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy.
box 6, folder 7

Statement to Democratic Party National Convention Platform Committee, Washington, D.C. 1968 August 20

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and mimeograph.
box 6, folder 8

Testimony on behalf of Friends Committee on National Legislation to U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee opposing Department of Defense budget requests, Washington, D.C. 1969 May

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy.
box 6, folder 9

"Report of U.S. Study Team on Religious and Political Freedom in Vietnam," 1969 June

Scope and Contents note

Collective report by True and other team members. Printed copy inserted in Congressional Record by Senator Abraham Ribicoff (1969 June 17).
box 6, folder 10

"The Hoa Binh Study: An Inquiry into Political and Religious Freedom in Vietnam," 1969 June

Scope and Contents note

Mimeograph. Individual report by True as member of U.S. Study Team on Religious and Political Freedom in Vietnam.
box 6, folder 11

Christmas message 1969 December

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 6, folder 12

Statement on Vietnam for Committee of Responsibility 1969

Scope and Contents note

Holograph.
box 6, folder 13

Statement to court on behalf of John Braxton, draft resister, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1970 December 13

Scope and Contents note

Typescript. Includes related letters and clippings.
box 6, folder 14

"American Prisoners in Vietnam," 1970

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 6, folder 15

"Effect of the Vietnam War on National Security," circa 1970

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 6, folder 16

"On Surveillance of Civilians by the Military," 1971 January 12

Scope and Contents note

Statement by True issued as press release by Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace.
box 6, folder 17

"National Security," 1972

Scope and Contents note

Typescript. Written for George McGovern campaign committee.
box 6, folder 18

"A Brief for World Community," speech, World Citizens Assembly, San Francisco, California 1975 July 22

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 6, folder 19

"Dialogue with National Security," 1975

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 6, folder 20

"The Happy Kingdom," 1976 September 30

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 7, folder 1

Autobiographical writings circa 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

Thirty-two autobiographical vignettes intended as parts of an uncompleted autobiography.
box 7, folder 2

"Christmas Eve Off Death Island," 1979

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy in The Way It Was: As Told By Those Who Were There (collection of writings by members of a Palo Alto, California senior citizens writing group).
box 7, folder 3

"A Definition of God," undated

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and mimeograph.
box 7, folder 4

"SALT II," undated

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
box 7, folder 5

"The United Nations," undated

Scope and Contents note

Typescript.
 

Letters to the editor

box 7, folder 6

Re Japanese American internment (with Corinne True), San Carlos Enquirer 1943 November 19

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy.
box 7, folder 7

Re Vietnam War, Progressive 1965 May

Scope and Contents note

Typescript, mimeograph, and printed copy.
box 7, folder 8

General 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

Typescripts and printed copies. Assorted letters to the editor, mainly re Vietnam War and other peace issues.
box 7, folder 9

Poems 1932-1978

Scope and Contents note

Holographs and typescripts.
box 7, folder 10-11

Speech notes, mainly re Vietnam War and other peace issues 1966-1976

box 8, folder 1

Speech notes, mainly re Vietnam War and other peace issues (cont'd.) 1966-1976

box 8, folder 2

Miscellany undated

Scope and Contents note

Notes and fragments.
 

Correspondence 1885-1987

Scope and Contents note

Includes family correspondence and correspondence of Corinne True after her husband's death.
 

General 1942-1986

box 8, folder 3

1942-1957

box 8, folder 4

1961-1966

box 8, folder 5

1967-1969

box 8, folder 6

1970-1978

box 8, folder 7

1979

box 8, folder 8

1980-1986

box 8, folder 9

Undated

box 9, folder 1

Family correspondence 1885-1979

box 9, folder 2

Unanswered letters to high government officials re public policy issues 1948-1977

box 9, folder 3

Abrams, Irwin 1947-1954

box 9, folder 4

American Civil Liberties Union 1965-1967

box 9, folder 5

American Friends Service Committee 1967-1971

box 9, folder 6

Anderson, John Z. (Congressman), re Japanese American internment 1943-1944

box 9, folder 7

Arms of Friendship (person-to-person Soviet-American pen pal program) 1960-1962

box 9, folder 8

Belli, Melvin M. 1968

box 9, folder 9

Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace 1967-1969

box 9, folder 10

Conyers, John, Jr. (Congressman) 1969

box 9, folder 11

Cousins, Norman ( Saturday Review) 1975

box 9, folder 12

Davis, Rennie 1968

box 9, folder 13

Deakin, James ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 1967

box 9, folder 14

Drinan, Robert F. (Congressman) 1970-1982

box 9, folder 15

Duncan, Donald W. (Ramparts; Support Our Soldiers) 1968-1969

box 9, folder 16

Fleming, D. F. 1966-1971

box 9, folder 17

Ford, William Wallace (General) 1967-1976

box 9, folder 18

Friends Committee on National Legislation 1951-1967

box 9, folder 19

Fulbright, J. William (Senator) 1966-1974

box 9, folder 20

Goertzel, Victor 1977

box 9, folder 21

Gore, Albert (Senator) 1970

box 9, folder 22

Gorman, Patrick E. 1967

box 9, folder 23

Greene, Felix 1969-1970

box 9, folder 24

Havrilla, Joseph and Lorraine 1972-1979

box 9, folder 25

Heisler, Francis, re Tonkin Gulf incident 1966

box 9, folder 26

Hester, Hugh B. (General) 1976

box 9, folder 27

Jarrell, Albert E. (Admiral) 1965

box 9, folder 28

Kahn, Albert E. 1973

box 9, folder 29

Keating, Edward M. 1967

box 9, folder 30

Kita, Hiromasa 1965-1984

box 9, folder 31

La Rocque, Gene R. (Admiral; Center for Defense Information) 1972-1987

box 9, folder 32

Lord, Walter, re Battle of Midway 1966-1967

box 10, folder 1

McDermid, Nancy 1970

box 10, folder 2

McGovern, George (Senator) 1972-1973

box 10, folder 3

Mumford, Lewis 1965

box 10, folder 4

Nixon, Richard M. (President) 1969-1971

box 10, folder 5

Overseas Vietnamese Buddhist Association 1969

box 10, folder 6

Palo Alto Friends Meeting 1969-1977

box 10, folder 7

Pauling, Linus 1977-1981

box 10, folder 8

Petersen, Gerald A. 1966-1976

box 10, folder 9

Ribicoff, Abraham (Senator) 1969

box 10, folder 10

Sabin, L. S. (Admiral) 1965-1968

box 10, folder 11

Shaw, Norman, mainly re U.S.S. Hammann 1976-1982

box 10, folder 12

Smith, Sheldon D. 1971-1978

box 10, folder 13

Sombart, George and Mary 1968-1969

box 10, folder 14

Spock, Benjamin 1968-1971

box 10, folder 15

Triplett, Hall 1968

box 10, folder 16

United States Department of Defense, re conscientious objectors 1966

box 10, folder 17

United States Department of State 1965

box 10, folder 18

United States Selective Service System (letters on behalf of individual conscientious objectors) 1967-1971

box 10, folder 19

Veterans for Peace 1967-1972

box 10, folder 20

Warren, Earl (Governor) 1951

box 10, folder 21

Windchy, Eugene G., re Gulf of Tonkin incident 1967-1971

 

Freedom of Information Act File 1987-1990

Scope and Contents note

Responses by U.S. government agencies to Freedom of Information Act requests by Corinne True with redacted photocopies of records provided.
box 10, folder 22

General

box 10, folder 23

United States Central Intelligence Agency 1987

box 10, folder 24

United States Department of Defense 1989

box 10, folder 25

United States Department of State 1987-1988

Scope and Contents note

Responses include photocopies of passport documents.
box 10, folder 26

United States Department of the Air Force 1988-1989

Scope and Contents note

Responses include redacted photocopy of Defense Intelligence Agency report.
box 10, folder 27

United States Department of the Army 1990

Scope and Contents note

Response includes redacted photocopy of intelligence report.
box 11, folder 1

United States Department of the Navy 1987-1989

Scope and Contents note

Responses include photocopies of Naval Academy records and redacted photocopies of intelligence reports.
box 11, folder 2-4

United States Federal Bureau of Investigation 1987-1989

Scope and Contents note

Responses include redacted photocopies of intelligence reports.
box 11, folder 5

United States National Security Agency 1987

box 11, folder 6

United States Postal Service 1987

 

Subject File 1943-1986

Scope and Contents note

Printed matter and miscellany not directly relating to Arnold Ellsworth True.
box 12, folder 1

Meteorology 1943-1968

Scope and Contents note

Speech, printed article, and clipping.
 

Peace 1946-1983

Scope and Contents note

Much of this material relates to the Vietnam War and associated anti-war movement, but it also includes material on more general issues of peace.
box 12, folder 2-4

Clippings 1946-1983

box 12, folder 4

Printed articles 1947-1978

box 12, folder 5

Newsletters and serial issues 1963-1971

box 12, folder 6

Pamphlets 1959-1967

box 12, folder 7

Leaflets and flyers 1961-1974

box 13, folder 1

Resolutions, statements and circulars 1959-1974

box 13, folder 2

Congressional Record excerpts 1965-1969

box 13, folder 3

D. F. Fleming printed articles 1965-1971

box 13, folder 4

Art Hoppe newspaper columns ( San Francisco Chronicle) 1965-1971

box 13, folder 5

Stanford University press releases 1959-1966

box 13, folder 6

South Vietnamese publications 1969

Scope and Contents note

Leaflets, clippings and serial issues collected by True during his visit to South Vietnam with the U.S. Study Team on Religious and Political Freedom in Vietnam.
box 13, folder 7

Other foreign publications 1963-1964

Scope and Contents note

Soviet and South Korean newspaper issues.
box 13, folder 8

United States Navy 1975-1986

Scope and Contents note

Printed matter and miscellany. Includes material on Battle of Midway and on U.S.S. Rizal, a ship on which True served.
box 13, folder 9

Miscellany 1953-1981

Scope and Contents note

Printed matter.
 

Oversize File 1918-1951

Scope and Contents note

Scrapbooks.
box 14, folder 4

Scrapbook of Nannie True, mother of Arnold Ellsworth True, including poems, letters and clippings 1918-1951

box 17

Scrapbook re World War II service of Arnold Ellsworth True on U.S.S. Hammann, including letters, clippings and photographs 1942-1943

 

Photographs 1886-1970s

box 14, folder 1-3

Album of family and naval service photographs circa 1886-1954

box 15, folder 1

Photographs of family and naval service scenes 1930s-1970s

box 15, folder 2

Photocopies of photographs, mainly of family scenes 1900s-1970s

 

Audiovisual File circa 1886-1979

Scope and Contents note

Photographs, drawing, watercolor, and sound recordings.
box 15, folder 3

Drawing of Arnold Ellsworth True undated

box 15, folder 4

Watercolor of Tanforan Internment Camp, California, painted by Hikari Inouye 1942

box 16

Two sound discs circa 1970

Scope and Contents note

Includes a Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace recording of speeches by Arnold Ellsworth True, former South Vietnamese Ambassador Tran Van Dinh, and Senator Thruston B. Morton; and a World Peace Broadcasting Foundation recording of speech by Senator Wayne Morse.
box 16

Four sound tape reels circa 1967-1970

Scope and Contents note

Includes speeches by Arnold Ellsworth True, an interview with True and Norman Mailer, and Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace radio commercial messages.
box 16

Five sound cassettes circa 1971-1977

Scope and Contents note

Includes speeches by Arnold Ellsworth True and a radio interview with True and Studs Terkel.
 

Declassified U.S. Government Records 1942 1944

Scope and Contents note

Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
box 15, folder 5

2016 February release of records 1942, 1944

Scope and Contents note

United States Navy memoranda, report, and correspondence relating to naval action and citation recommendations, particularly in relation to the sinking of the U.S.S. Hammann.