Preliminary Inventory of the Martin Florian Herz collection
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Title: Martin Florian Herz collection
Date (inclusive): 1967-1969
Collection Number: 78104
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English and Vietnamese
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 Linear Feet)
source:
Herz, Martin F. (Martin Florian), 1917-1983
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1978.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Martin Florian Herz collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternate Forms Available
Scope and Content of Collection
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong propaganda directed at American soldiers in Vietnam. Herz's original numbering, arrangement,
and descriptions have largely been maintained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Propaganda
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Propaganda
Herz, Martin F. (Martin Florian), 1917-1983
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1) "A CORPORAL OF THE FIRST U.S. INF. DIV. DESERTED AND WENT TO THE LIBERATED REGION OF LONGAN PROVINCE"
Scope and Contents note
"...Since he (Corporal McKinley Nolan)...became an eyewitness pillages and devastating of villages, barbarous killings and
miserable defeats of U.S. aggressors,...courageously he decided the far well to the troops,...was warmly welcome by V.N. people...and
is well treating by the N.F.L. that makes all conditions to assist him according to his will."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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2) "DEAR FRIENDS OF AMERICAN ARMED FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
Deserter statement: "I am Mc Kinley Nolan...I have been treated well since I crossed over to the South Vietnamese people and
its liberation combatants' side...I do think this war waged by our government is nothing but an aggressive war..."
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2A) "G.I's OF THE 1st AND 25th INFANTRY DIVISION!"
Scope and Contents note
Deserter statement: "My name Mc Kinley Nolan...To contribute your efforts to the American people's struggle for an early end
to this dirty aggressive war...you should:
-Demand for peace, an end to the war!
-Demand for your home return now!..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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3) "RALLIED MAN NOLAN TO 1st AND 25th INFANTRYMEN!"
Scope and Contents note
Same as 2A, in Nolan's handwriting.
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3A) "FELLOW AMERICAN SOLDIERS"
Scope and Contents note
Deserter statement: "My name is JOHN PETER JOHNSON...I have crossed over to the Liberation Armed Forces Side. I acted on my
own free will. I believe in the policy of the Front is just...I am sure I will be released soon. So I can tell the people
back home and other countries about the patriotic struggle of the Vietnamese people...Get out of this hell of a War before
it is too late..." (John Peter Johnson's signature).
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4) "P.O.W. SMITH TO G.I's"
Scope and Contents note
Prisoner of war's statement: "To my fellow servicemen! I am Donald Smith...I am lucky I was captured by S.V.N.N.L.F. At least
I am still alive to someday return home...We must oppose the Johnson Administration and its policy...War is not a pleasant
thing for you or your parents to go through so let's stay home where we belong."
In Smith's handwriting. Includes Vietnamese translation. Smith was subsequently released.
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5) "STATEMENT OF THREE U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR..."
Scope and Contents note
"Statement of three U.S. prisoners of war released on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the founding of the SVNNLF (Dec.
20, 1968)." (Donald G. Smith; Thomas Nelson Jones; James W. Brigham)
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5A) "THOMAS N. JONES' IMPRESSIONS"
Scope and Contents note
"Thomas N. Jones' impressions when he was released by the S.V.N.N.L.F. on Dec. 20, 1968."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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5B) "JAMES W. BRIGHAM'S IMPRESSIONS"
Scope and Contents note
"James W. Brigham's impressions when he was released by the S.V.N.N.L.F. on Dec. 20, 1968."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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6) a. "TO AFRO-AMERICAN G.I's!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Where is the enemy of Luther King as well as of all Afro-Americans? Not here in Vietnam, but right in the U.S.A.!...Americans,
return home to solve your living and civil-right problems!..."
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6) b. "The Vietnam War is a 'hell hole of racism for the Negroes GIs over and above the usual hell of war'..."
Scope and Contents note
"...Your real enemies are those who call you 'Niggers'. Your genuine struggle is on your native land. GO HOME NOW AND ALIVE!"
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6A) a. "WHERE IS THE BATTLEFIELD OF COLORED AMERICANS?"
Scope and Contents note
"Colored G.I's! Black leader Stokely Carmichael has said: 'Our enemy is not the Vietnamese people...'...It is necessary for
you to return home now to struggle for the liberation of colored people of America."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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6A) b. "HOW 'DEMOCRACY' OPERATES"
Scope and Contents note
"11 percent of the U.S. population are Negroes.
30 percent of the G.I's in Vietnam are Negroes.
40 percent of G.I. deaths in Vietnam are Negroes.
If you're reading this, you're one of the 30 percent.
Stay out of the 40 percent column!
GO HOME!"
Includes cartoon on reverse side.
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6B) "US ARMYMEN - NEGRO ARMYMEN"
Scope and Contents note
"On April 4 -1968, the racists assassinated Mr. Martin Luther King...Do act according to Mr. King's teaching: 'We fight against
racial discrimination not against the combatants of freedom and independence in Vietnam.' Don't die in vain in Vietnam! Don't
interfere on the Vietnamese's internal affair..."
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6C) "American Negro soldiers!"
Scope and Contents note
"Unite with Vietnamese people in the struggle against our common enemy, the US ruling circles..." (may not have been disseminated).
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6D) "A POEM FROM AN AMERICAN GI OF THE 4 INF DIVISION"
Scope and Contents note
2 identical leaflets: Recto: "I am a soldier and black is my skin..."
Verso: "Floyd B. McKissick, National Director of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) says: '...the colored peoples over there
(Asia) are fighting for the same thing that we're fighting for. They see the U.S. as an aggressor...'"
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6E) b. Same as 6D; includes cartoon on reverse side
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6F) "STILL THE CHAMPION!!! MUHAMMED ALI, WORLD CHAMPION AND A REAL HERO"
Scope and Contents note
Recto: "'I refuse to be inducted into the Armed Forces of the United States...'"
Verso: "Captain Howard Levy, a true American and a doctor with a conscience: 'The United States is wrong in being involved
in the Vietnam war...'"
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6G) "EVER HEARD THIS LITTLE DITTY?"
Scope and Contents note
"'I wish I were an Alabama trooper
That is what I would truly like to be
I wish I were an Alabama trooper
Cause then I could kill the niggers legally'
In America, the black people have constantly had the doom of SECONDCLASS CITIZENS and of being KILLED LEGALLY by the racists,
as has proven by this extremely reactionary ditty being openly circulated in the U.S...."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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6H) "BLACK GI's!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Not a single black life for the American imperialists' war of aggression in Vietnam!..."
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7) "THE CENTRAL TRUNG BO NATIONAL FRONT FOR LIBERATION SET FREE TWO U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR" (2 Puerto Ricans)
Scope and Contents note
"...After having showed progress in study and education and repent over their past crimes committed against the Vietnamese
people, they are allowed to return home to work and live with their families..."
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8) "American GI's OF THE 25th INFANTRY DIVISION!"
Scope and Contents note
Puerto-Rican P.O.W's statement: "I am Ferdinand Rodriguez...I agree with the Vietnamese people welcome the American people
in the latter's struggle for an end to the war and equality right to Negroes and Puerto-Ricans. I wish to tell you that as
a prisoner of war you will receive kind treatment..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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9) "P.O.W. FERDINAND TO 25th INFANTRYMEN!"
Scope and Contents note
Same as 8, in Rodriguez's handwriting. Includes Vietnamese translation.
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10) "LETTER OF 3 U.S. P.O.W's TO DRIVERS IN THE U.S. ARMY IN S.V.N."
Scope and Contents note
"We are Thomas N. Jones...Kenneth R. Gregory...Bobby L Johnson...Johnson and his clique do not want to end this war...They
are not over here dying and their family is not sheding
[sic] tears...Johnson and his gang are making millions of dollars off of this unjust war...Demand an end to the war...Refuse to
go out on operations but if you have to go, cross over to L.A.F....and you will receive good human and lenient treatment."
In Jones' handwriting, with other two signatures. Includes Vietnamese translation.
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10A) "ANY G.I. MAY HAVE THE SAME LUCK!"
Scope and Contents note
Names of three released P.O.W.s. "Those in the U.S. Army who cross over to the South Vietnamese people's side will be given
kind treatment and helped to return to their families when conditions permit. Captured U.S. troops will be given the same
kind treatment and lenient policy as captured Saigonese troops."
Includes statements of 2 P.O.W.s.
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11) "STATEMENT OF 3 G.I's TAKEN P.O.W's BY THE L.A.F."
Scope and Contents note
Similar to 10, in Gregory's handwriting, with other two signatures. Includes Vietnamese translation.
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11A) "IMPRESSION OF US RELEASED P.O.W."
Scope and Contents note
Gregory's statement when released, thanking for "lenient and humane policy towards foreign allied men and P.O.W.'s."
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12) "FELLOW G.I's IN SOUTH VIETNAM!"
Scope and Contents note
Similar to 10.
"...The reason we are alive now is because we crossed over to the L.A.F. at the first chance we had..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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13) Leaflet with list of themes
Scope and Contents note
Summarized list of themes: "Demand end of war; Vietnam to Vietnamese; hands off the lives and property of the South Vietnamese
people; the U.S. war of aggression will certainly be defeated; rise up and struggle; refuse to fight; surrender; desert; Negro
G.I.s won't fight..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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14) "ANY CAPTURED G.I. SOONER OR LATER MAY HAVE THE SAME LUCK!"
Scope and Contents note
List of 11 U.S. P.O.W's set free by the South Vietnam NFL; includes statements of 2 P.O.W's: MICHAEL F. OCONNOR and Mc KINLEY
NOLAN.
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14A) "Young American soldiers in Vietnam..."
Scope and Contents note
Recto: Picture of American soldiers. "Young American soldiers in Vietnam / Their enemy is in Washington / You're not the only
one who's sick of this war!"
Verso: "Private David Carnevale wrote home: 'I'm sick, sick of what I've done. And what has happened to my friends...Dad!
I don't want to die! Please get me out of here!'"
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15) "AMERICAN G.I's!"
Scope and Contents note
"Within two recent days (December 27-28, 1968) over 3,000 American officers and men in the 25th Inf. Div. stationed at Dong
Du base camp (Cu-chi) simultanously
[sic] rose up to oppose the war. They held high their banderoles and slogans demanding: -An immediate end to war -A withdrawal
of U.S. troops from S.V.N....You should...resolutely refuse to go to the field..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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16) "BRING ALL U.S. TROOPS HOME NOW!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Leave your firearms aside, Resolutely refuse to set out on operations, Demand immediate home return to your dear ones
waiting for you."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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16A) a. "ALPHA COMPANY, 196th BRIGADE HAS SET AN EXAMPLE OF WAR RESISTANCE..."
Scope and Contents note
"...Follow its path. Show the brass you are men, not robots!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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16A) b. "WELCOME TO G.I's WHO OPPOSE THE US AGGRESSIVE WAR IN SVN..."
Scope and Contents note
"...who don't kill the Vietnamese people, and demand an immediate withdrawal of all US troops from SVN!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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17) "THE ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION IN THE UNITED STATES"
Scope and Contents note
"On April 6, 1969, the American people in over 40 cities staged the demonstration against the aggressive war in Vietnam, millions
of the American peoples of all Work of life including whites, Negroes and an American Indian took part in the demonstration
With many leaflets and slogans...Unite and protest...Sympathize with and support the Vietnamese peoples' struggle..."
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17A) a. "WHEN IN CONTACT, CROSS OVER TO THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S SIDE THEN YOU WILL BE KINDLY TREATED!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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17A) b. "WELCOME TO G.I's OPPOSING THE US IMPERIALIST AGGRESSIVE WAR IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND DEMANDING THE WITHDRAWAL OF US TROOPS
HOME!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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17B) a. "WHAT MUST YEU
[sic] DO TO RESTORE AN EARLY PEACE?"
Scope and Contents note
"In April 1969, a great number of American people...took to the street energetically demanding an end to this cruel and abominable
war...G.I's, join in that lofty struggle...Let the Vietnamese people settle their own affairs themselves!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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17B) b. "WHY AND FOR WHOM ARE YOU TEN THOUSAND MILES FROM HOME? G.I.'s!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Why has the US ruling circle sent you over here? Because they want much dollar profit from the Vietnam war..."
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18) a. "AMERICAN G.I's!"
Scope and Contents note
"From the 1st to the 5th November, 1968, the 'U.S. Nation-Wide Committee for Demand of Ending the War of Aggression in Vietnam'
hold a 'Nation-Wide Week of American Troops' to support your movement of anti-war of repatriation..."
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18) b. "AMERICAN OFFICERS AND MEN"
Scope and Contents note
"...We appeal to you to refrain from interfering in the Vietnamese people's internal affairs and supporting the Thieu-Ky puppet
administration in the suppression of our compatriots..."
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18A) a. "1st CAVALLRYMEN!"
Scope and Contents note
"...the 1st Air Cav. Div. has completely failed not only in its attempt to block the Liberation Armed Forces from afar, resulting
in abandonment of a number of positions in order to shrink back, but also in escaping heavy losses...G.I's in the Air Cav.
Div.!...Don't be the last American to die in Vietnam!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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18A) b. "G.I's IN THE 1st AIR CAVALRY DIVISION!"
Scope and Contents note
"What do you think of these words of condemnation hereupon: '...We denounce your escalation of this dirty war...' (Excerpts
from 'A Motion to the Government of the United States' adopted by various P.O.W's including Captain Harold Kushner of the
1st Air Cav. Division)."
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18B) "G.I's IN QUANG-TRI!"
Scope and Contents note
"Do you know that all US and South Vietnamese troops stationed at Khe-Sanh had hastily run away from this position on June
26, 1968?...There is no doubt the retreating of all US and puppet troops from Khe-Sanh is a so great setback of strategy of
Johnson and his clique...To avoid a useless death you had better side with the American people and tell each other: Refuse
to go to battle..."
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18C) "U.S. TROOPS' SHAMEFUL WITHDRAWAL FROM KHE SANH BASE."
Scope and Contents note
"...Withdrawal from Khe Sanh is the heaviest failure of the US aggressors."
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18D) a. "OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE 1st AIR CAV. DIV!
Scope and Contents note
"Don't let the war-like ruling clique continues to deceive you and misuse your blood and sweat any more..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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18D) b. "G.I's IN THE 1st AIR CAV. DIVISION!"
Scope and Contents note
"Thousands of American youngsters thus have continually fallen on the battlefield!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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19) a. "U.S. OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE 25th INFANTRY DIVISION!"
Scope and Contents note
"...How many your buddies falled
[sic] down and tax funds of the U.S. people wasted by the dirty war in South Vietnam? When day, the Nixon government still obsnate
[sic] to prolong the aggressive war against South Vietnamese people then the People's Liberation Armed Forces still continue to
launch many attacks which fiercer than these..."
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19) b. "THE US SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BEGIN PULLING ITS TROOPS OUT OF VIETNAM WITH ALL POSSIBLE SPEED"
Scope and Contents note
"That was from a recent statement of Senator Mc Govern. He added: 'Haven't we had enough of this little tinhorn dictator Ky
who wastes American tax funds and American blood in Vietnam!...'"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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19A) a. "WHAT MUST YOU DO TO RESTORE PEACE EARLY?"
Scope and Contents note
Similar to 17B. Includes Vietnamese translation.
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19A) b. "THE WAY TO AN HONORABLE SETTLEMENT FOR THE US"
Scope and Contents note
"Nixon deems it necessary to 'Des-Americanize' the Vietnam war...But in reality, he continues to blacken the image of America,
to drive you out to kill and to be killed needlessly...For the US, the way to an honorable settlement is to withdraw all American
and satellite troops out of Vietnam, to let the Vietnamese people settle their own affairs themselves..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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19B) a. "RATHER BE JAILED BUT ABLE TO COME HOME THAN DIE IN VAIN IN SOUTH VIETNAM..."
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19B) b. "...GIS REFUSE TO GO TO THE BATTLE FRONT"
Scope and Contents note
"...The best way to preserve your lives is not to interfere in our internal affairs..."
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19B) c. "...AMERICAN GI'S UNITE AND PROTEST ALONGSIDE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST NIXON's WAR IN VIETNAM..."
Scope and Contents note
"...The U.S. death toll is being multiplied by the Nixon administrations insistance
[sic] that the aggressive war in Vietnam must go on..."
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19C) "PROCLAMATION AMERICAN OFFICERS AND MEN. U.S. ALLIED OFFICERS AND MEN."
Scope and Contents note
"...the South Vietnam people of all strata have risen up to overthrow the present dictatorial corrupt administration, criminal
of the merciless war which is heavily devastating their Fatherland. The Saigon administration is overthrown. It has now no
legal nor practical power..."
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20) "AN APPEAL TO U.S. SERVICEMEN IN VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
Four P.O.W.'s statement: "U.S. Servicemen, we represent officers and men...who have been captured in various battles by the
people's Liberation Armed Forces. Among us are Whites, Negroes, and an American Indian. We are very hopeful of the war ending
soon so that we may return to our families and loved ones. But due to the stubborness
[sic] of the present U.S. administration and their Saigon puppets, the war the needless suffering and slaughter of the Vietnamese
people and our own American people continues to drag on..."
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20A) "TO: OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE U.S., SOUTH KOREAN, AUSTRALIAN, THAI...ARMIES INVOLVED IN SOUTH VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
"...In their stormy general offensive and uprising the SVN people and army will continue dealing thunderbolt blows at U.S.
imperialists and the Thieu-Ky clique in the time to come..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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21) "THE SOUTH VIETNAM NATIONAL FRONT FOR LIBERATION GIVES LENIENT AND HUMANE TREATMENT TO CAPTURED G.I.s."
Scope and Contents note
"...American G.I.s! If you have seen the truth and are sincerely tired of this dirty and criminal war of aggression, seek
a way in combat to cross over..." Includes statements of 3 P.O.W.s.
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21A) a. "WHAT MUST YEU
[sic] DO TO RESTORE AN EARLY PEACE?" (same as 17B)
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21A) b. "WHAT MUST YOU DO TO RESTORE PEACE EARLY?" (similar to 17B)
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21A) c. "AMERICAN G.I.s!"
Scope and Contents note
"Whether Anello - one of your fellow soldiers...is still alive or like hundreds of thousands of other ill-fated GI's died
in the South Vietnam battle-field. But Anello's words in his diary will offer you alot
[sic] of help: 'A smile, but no ones smiling. A laugh, but no ones laughing...' Friends! Anello has exposed the hatred of war and
the tiredness of life of the Americans in Vietnam..." Includes cartoon.
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21B) "TO OFFICERS ARD MEN IN THE DIV"
Scope and Contents note
"The war waged by the U.S. government in Vietnam has been come into Complete failure...Many U.S. congressmen also said that
'the war must be stopped; withdrawn U.S. troops home; the peace must be restored in Vietnam'..."
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21C) "OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE US ARMED FORCES IN SOUTH VN!"
Scope and Contents note
"On June 8, 1969 the national congress of the people's representatives of SVN consisting of representatives of people of all
walks of life...has formed the provisional revolutionary government of SVN headed by president Huynh Tan Phat...American GI's!
There is no reason for you to be here in SVN 'to fight under the oppressive weather and muddy soil for the existence of a
couple of men in Saigon presidential residence' (E. Kennedy)..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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21D) "THE WAY TO AN HONORABLE SETTLEMENT FOR THE U.S."
Scope and Contents note
Similar to 19A. Includes Vietnamese translation.
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21E) "BEING ALIVE AND SENT HOME!"
Scope and Contents note
Recto: "How many men lost their lives?...That is only because of Nixon's warlike policy of agonizingly slow pace of withdrawal
and of war prolongation...OUT NOW AND ALIVE!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
Verso: Drawing of an American woman crying over American soldiers' graveyards, with anti-war protesters in the background.
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22) a. "THIS IS YOUR FREE TICKET OUT"
Scope and Contents note
"...How to get out of here alive. The answer is: Let yourself be captured..."
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22) b. "THERE IS NO HATRED AMONG THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AND YOUR OWN ONES. SO WHY ARE YOU KILLING THE VIETNAMESE?"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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23) "TO ANTI-WAR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN!"
Scope and Contents note
"We warmly welcome American G.I's who, for the sake of America's honor and human conscience, resolutely oppose the aggressive
war waged by U.S imperialism in South Vietnam!...To help us differentiate you from the stubborn thugs fighting us, you should
do as follows..."
Includes a "FAVORABLE TREATMENT BILL FOR ANTI-WAR G.I's" and Vietnamese translation.
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23A) Thank-you letter of P.O.W. Richard Gordon Burgess for medical attention.
Scope and Contents note
Recto: Thank-you letter of P.O.W. Richard Gordon Burgess for medical attention.
Verso: "The US has no business in Vietnam said Marine General '...I believe that if we keep our dirty, bloody-dollar-crooked
fingers out of the business of these nations so full of exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own...'
General David M. Shoup."
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24) a. "POLICY TOWARD US AND SATELLITE POWs IN SOUTH VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
"Base on the humanitarian and lenient policy of the SVN-NFL, the High Command of the SVN-LA has stipulated the following points:..."
(on P.O.W. treatment).
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24) b. "THE SOUTH VIETNAM NFL GIVES LENIENT AND HUMANE TREATMENT TO CAPTURED G.I's."
Scope and Contents note
Recto: "To welcome puppet officers and soldiers and puppet officials back to the just cause..."
Verso: "How to surrender or to cross over to the NFL's side..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
24A) a. "WHEN CLASHED, THROW AWAY YOUR ARMS, CROSS OVER TO THE P.L.A.F's SIDE, YOU WILL BE WELL TREATED"
24A) b. "SAFE-CONDUCT PASS"
Scope and Contents note
Safe-conduct for someone who "wishes to live under protection of NFL."
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24B) "IT'S A HELL OF A LIFE"
Scope and Contents note
"Inside the base:
-Tropical Heat!
-Over-Strain!
-Disease!
Ourside
[sic] the base:
-Mosquitoes...
-A Hand-Grenade may be tossed at you...
There is no safe place for you! Because: you are being forced to fight an unjust war..."
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24C) "TO: AMERICAN AND SATELLITE SERVICEMEN WOUNDED IN BATTLEFIELD!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Having been granted humane treatment by the L.A.F., you should dwell on the crimes against the Vietnamese people perpetrated
by you and your buddies..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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24D) a. Released POW's 1969 letter found in Pentagon by his family
Scope and Contents note
"Don't be too alarmed but this is me (John Sexton Jr). I am not dead..." (in John Sexton Jr.'s handwriting).
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24D) b. "RELEASED POW's 1969 LETTER FOUND IN PENTAGON BY HIS FAMILY"
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper article: "Sgt. John C. Sexton Jr....wrote a letter seven days after he was captured saying he was 'not dead like
everybody probably thinks.' But his family did not learn of the letter until two years later..."
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25) "WHY???"
Scope and Contents note
Two identical leaflets. "Nixon, faced with bitter setbacks in the aggressive war against South Vietnam, has to confess that:
- The USA gets bogged down in the war.
- The USA is torn up by divisions.
- American spirit is raked and depressed.
Then...Why doesn't Nixon withdraw...?"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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25A) "WHY AND FOR WHOM ARE YOU TEN THOUSAND MILES FROM HOME?"
Scope and Contents note
Two identical leaflets, same as in 17B. Includes Vietnamese translation.
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26) a. "YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN HATING THIS WAR!"
Scope and Contents note
Statements from five Americans explaining why they refused to serve in Vietnam: "U.S. aggression"; "not willing to die defending
the United States stock market"; "undeclared and therefore illegal war on people of colour."
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26) b. "WHAT WILL HELP YOU? COMBAT PAY OR A PURPLE HEART IF YOU GO HOME A CRIPPLE...OR IN A COFFIN"
Scope and Contents note
"Mc Namara says Americans will have to learn to accept casualties. And that means you, G.I...Their combat pay doesn't do them
much good when they go home in a box..."
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26A) a. "WHAT'S IN WASHINGTON'S WAR FOR YOU?"
Scope and Contents note
"You go in" (picture of soldiers on the battle-field)
"You come out" (picture of coffins covered with American flag)
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26A) b. South Vietnam NFL 1969 calendar
Scope and Contents note
South Vietnam NFL 1969 little calendar, which reads on the bottom: "How many more days for you? Give yourself a chance. Get
out now - alive!"
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26B) a. South Vietnam N.F.L. Christmas card: "Will you return safe and sound?"
Scope and Contents note
A woman looking at a man's picture with these words: "Will you return safe and sound?"
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26B) b. South Vietnam N.F.L. Christmas card: "Merry Christmas"
Scope and Contents note
Christmas card depicting an American woman thinking of her G.I. coming back to her.
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27) a. "YANKS, GO HOME!"
Scope and Contents note
"That's what they're shouting all over South Vietnam. They're right. There's no reason for you to be here where nobody except
a few crooks who betray their own people want you."
On reverse side, drawings of American soldiers not wanted anywhere in the world except in the States.
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27) b. "YANKS, COME HOME!"
Scope and Contents note
"That's what they're crying in the States. They're right. There's no reason for you to be away from home."
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28) "HE LIES DEAD IN VIETNAM - FOR WHOM?"
Scope and Contents note
"For corrupt and power-hungry South Vietnamese 'leaders', whose own people do not support them...For an American policy that...is
bringing but huge profits to US war mongers..."
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29) a. and b. "AMERICAN OFFICERS AND MEN!"
Scope and Contents note
Two identical leaflets. "...Our people and Armed Forces' recent offensive...showed out the strength and the unshaken determination
of the South Vietnamese people..."
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29) c. "THE STRUGGLE FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND FOR THE INTERESTS OF GI's SURVIVAL IN SOUTH VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
"...The struggle of the workmen, peasants, intellectuals, school-children, students, buddhists
[sic] and even of the Saigon army's officers and men is bursting out throughout South Vietnam's Cities and towns...The more you
[GIs] approve of and welcome this struggle and the wider your war protestation and peace demand is, the sooner the restoration
of peace and your home return will come..."
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30) "DON'T YOU EVER THINK OVER AND ASK YOURSELVES..."
Scope and Contents note
"...What real profits your sacrifices will bring to your fatherland, to the American people, to your families and to yourselves?
A large part of U.S. troops has seen through the truth about the U.S dirty war of aggression in SVN, so more and more of them
refuse to fight. Many overtly oppose the war. You do see it, don't you? The Liberation armed forces, backed up by the population,
have grown much stronger...and the U.S. aggressors are no match for them..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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30A) a. "OPINION OF SENATOR MC GOVERN ON 'VN MORATORIUM DAY'"
Scope and Contents note
"'...Let's stop saving face and begin saving life!'"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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30A) b. "AMERICAN OFFICERS AND G.I's BEING PUSHED TO GET KILLED IN THE MOUNTAINS!"
Scope and Contents note
"Millions of Americans are fed up with Nixon's continuation of the Johnson war policy. How long will it take for you to go
along risking your lives for nothing?...Side with the flock at home for immediate and complete troop withdrawal from Vietnam..."
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31) a. Statement of Senator Wayne Morse (AP, April 29, 1967)
Scope and Contents note
"Wrapping a bad policy in a flag doesn't give it any more chance for success. It only means that more Americans will die to
carry it out..."
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31) b. "G.I's, REFUSE TO GO OUT FIGHTING AND DYING FOR THE CAPITALIST GUN-DEALERS AND THE ROTTEN PUPPETS IN SAIGON"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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32) "REPATRIATE OR DIE!"
Scope and Contents note
After same Mc Govern statement as in 19:
"American G.I's...demand an immediate repatriation! If you don't want to be killed uselessly and senselessly for the interests
of U.S arm-dealer capitalists and their rotten puppet clique-Thieu Ky Huong crooks."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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33) "AMERICAN SERVICEMEN"
Scope and Contents note
"...At the American House of representatives, one of its members Mr. Koch denounced that Nixon didn't keep what he has promised
during his election campaign and hesitated about ending the VN war and bringing all US troops home..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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34) Drawing of an American woman lying in bed: "I'M WAITING FOR YOU, DARLING"
Scope and Contents note
"Darling! I'm longing for your return home. Our happiness is here in our sweet home, not in South Vietnam! No reenlistment!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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35) a. "NEGOCIATE WITH THE N.L.F. FOR AN END TO THE WAR AND FOR THE RESTORATION OF PEACE IN SOUTH VIETNAM, FOR AMERICAN TROOPS
TO RETURN TO THE U.S.A. AND THEIR HOMES."
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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35) b. "G.I's, REFUSE TO GO OUT FIGHTING AND DYING FOR THE CAPITALIST GUN-DEALERS AND THE ROTTEN PUPPETS IN SAIGON."
Scope and Contents note
Inludes Vietnamese translation.
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35) c. "THE US MUST DIRECTLY NEGOTIATE WITH THE NLF FOR AN END TO THE WAR AND THE RESTORATION OF PEACE IN VIETNAM SO THAT
G.I's MAY RETURN HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES!"
Scope and Contents note
Inludes Vietnamese translation.
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35A) "OUTSTANDING AMERICAN PERSONALITIES SUPPORT THE 'VN MORATORIUM DAY'"
Scope and Contents note
Democrat Senator Mansfield ("...discontent of the American public...")
Famous baby doctor Benjamin Spock ("...We must force him [Nixon] to end it now!")
R. Hilsman, a former assistance secretary of State ("...the public have moved over to oppose the war.")
Mrs Coretta King, widower of late minister Luther King ("...this war is unjust and dirty.")
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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35B) "'THE WAR WE ARE WAGING IS NOT A JUST AND NECESSARY ONE'"
Scope and Contents note
"It is the statement of Mrs. Chishokm, a member of the House of Representatives...She said: '...We are tightly locked in this
war by the stubborn and arrogant leaders who dare not acknowledge their mistake...' G.I's in South Vietnam! You certainly
have a beloved mother who is hourly and minutely worrying about you, and yearning miserably day and night for you to return
home..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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35C) "END THE VIETNAM WAR NOW!"
Scope and Contents note
"The Vietnam Moratorium Day in protest against the Vietnam War took place seethingly throughout the States on Oct. 15, 1969...Addressing
the meetings, senators E. Kennedy, Mc Govern strongly denounced Nixon's policy of continuation of the war..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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35D) "COMIN' HOME SOON"
Scope and Contents note
"'There's a Mother in California,
Whose heart is aching now.
There's a girl in Indiana,
Who feels the same somehow.
There's a guy far away,
At a place they call Da Nang
And it's his absence
That's the cause of all this pain.'
--John A. Carvalho, Wing Equipment & Repair Sq. 17"
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36) "OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE US EXPEDITIONARY CORPS IN SOUTH VN!"
Scope and Contents note
"The stubborn Nixon Administration continues accelerating the war of aggression in VietNam...G.I's!...What to do to get an
early out of this 'VietNam War hell' and to return to the fold?
- Demand that US Govn't end this war now, restore peace in Vietnam!
- Resolutely refuse to go out on operation or out into the field!
- Demand an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all US troops home!
- Let the Vietnamese people settle their internal affairs themselves!"
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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37) "AMERICAN OFFICERS AND MEN!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Don't be so foolish as being the last to die in this dirty war of agression
[sic]."
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39) "AMERICAN G.I's!"
Scope and Contents note
Two identical leaflets. "...Resolutely refuse to battle, search, shell mortars or cause obstacle to the South Vietnamese struggle
to overthrow Thieu Ky Huong...The S.V.N. Affairs must be settled by the P.R.G of S.V.N."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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40) "NIXON's WORDS AND DEEDS!"
Scope and Contents note
"Having suffered setbacks in Vietnam, in his Inaugural address Nixon said: 'I want to end this extremely hard war as soon
as possible!' But what has he done to bring an end to the war? In the past 3 months, nothing was done!..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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41) "WHEN WILL YOUR TURN BE?"
Scope and Contents note
"...Don't hesitate and wait for your names called. You must find the way out of this senseless and bloody war by yourselves
now!..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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42) "G.I's IN THE 1st AIR CAVALRY DIVISION!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes list of several battlefields where Americans suffered heavy casualties.
"Isn't it that your coming here [Eastern Nambo] is to shoulder the Danger and Death which Abrams and the other units wish
to shift onto you!...G.I's, don't die the worthless death of the last man in the last battle in Vietnam."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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43) a. "AN END TO THE WAR, AMERICAN TROOPS BACK TO AMERICA! DO NOT FIGHT THE VIETNAMESE WHO ARE STRUGGLING FOR INDEPENDENCE
AND FREEDOM!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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43) b. "IMMEDIATE PEACE IN VIETNAM! AMERICAN TROOPS BACK HOME!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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43) c. "DO NOT GO ON OPERATION, THROW YOUR WEAPONS, CROSS OVER TO THE VIETNAMESE YOU WILL BE SAFELY REPATRIATED!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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44) "UP MEN! STRUUGLE FOR YOURSELVES!"
Scope and Contents note
"...Refuse to fight. No killing and massacring the Vietnamese people..."
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45) "WISH (picture of family gathering) AND REALITY (pictures of soldiers on the battlefield, and of graveyards)"
Scope and Contents note
"G.I's! You're dreaming of hurrying home to your families and your wife and kids. Now realize your dream by:
- Don't move out, don't go into the fields...
- Demand your home coming..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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46) a. "AMERICAN GI's!"
Scope and Contents note
"GI's in Vietnam, you must wake up to the sad fact that each of you and nobody else, who have to pay with your very life for
the warlike policy of the Nixon Administration...Twenty-three years ago, after World War II your elder made it home...Why
couldn't you do the same now, when the Americans in the US are saying 'Save our boys, Bring them home.'"
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46) b. "BRING US HOME! WE WON'T GO TO BATTLE!"
Scope and Contents note
"This is the shout of more than 500 U.S. officers and men of the 2nd and 3rd Bn, 1st Marines Reg. opposing raid order on Aug.
3, 69, at Con Khe and Don Trang bases...American GIs!...Why don't you do like your fellows in the 1st USMC regiment?..."
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47) a. "AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN SOUTH VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
"Why you can't enjoy christmas
[sic] ever besides you loved ones at home? Because: The US government has waging the aggressive war in South Vietnam..."
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47) b. and c. "JOIN THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE YOURSELVES AND THE HONOR OF THE UNITED STATES"
Scope and Contents note
Two identical leaflets. "The US government has acknowledged that the Vietnam war is the third in the war history of the United
States, as far as US casualties are concerned...Anyhow Nixon goes on embarking headlong into this costly, deadly, unjust,
aggressive war thus wasting more of the American youth's blood..."
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48) "BRING ALL U.S. TROOPS HOME NOW!"
Scope and Contents note
"According to AP and AFP, in response to the VN Moratorium Day...numerous American servicemen and personnel in Saigon, Danang,
Bien Hoa, Long Binh and some other American bases in SVN, held meetings, demonstrations for an immediate end to the war and
the total withdrawal of U.S. troops from VN..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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48A) a. "PEACE IN VIETNAM, BRING AMERICAN TROOPS HOME!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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48A) b. "BRING AN END TO THE WAR! THE AMERICAN TROOPS MUST BE REPATRIATED! VIETNAM INTERNAL AFFAIRS MUST BE SETTLED BY THE
VIETNAMESE PEOPLE THEMSELVES!"
Scope and Contents note
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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49) "THE SON MY BLOODY MASS-KILLING HAS BEEN DENOUNCED BY WORLD OPINION"
Scope and Contents note
Includes a description of the killing on March 18, 1968.
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50) "STATEMENT OF THE WOMEN ASSOCIATION FOR THE SAFEGUARD OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE OF QUANGTIN ABOUT THE U.S.
AND SOUTH KOREAN TROOPS MASS KILLING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN QUANGNGAI AND QUANGNAM."
Scope and Contents note
"We women...have been deeply moved when learning about two following massacres...We demand the U.S. government to take full
responsibility...We appeal to all the women organisations at home and abroad...to do all that is in your power to denounce
the above-mentioned crimes of U.S. and South Korea troops..."
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51) "APPEAL BY THE SOUTH VIETNAM PEACEFUL COMMITTEE TO SERVICEMEN IN THE U.S. EXPEDITIONARY ARMED FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
"American GI's! Johnson's administration has been forced to end their bombing and strafing on the whole Democratic Republic
of Vietnam territory. It is clear that the escalated policy of the hawks in the white House and Pentagon is heavily defeated..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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52) "THE 10 POINT OVER-ALL SOLUTION OF THE SVNNLF TO THE SOUTH VIETNAM PROBLEM HELPS RESTORE PEACE IN V.N."
Scope and Contents note
"THE WORLD PUBLIC OPINIONS ON THE NLF's 10 POINT SOLUTION"
U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield ("...a sensible solution...")
New york
[sic] Times ("...a very sensible step...")
The Times, England ("...a positive attitude never known before...")
Asahi Shimbun, Japan ("No one can oppose the principles of this proposal expounded on the basis of the national right of self-determination...")
"AMERICAN GI's IN SOUTH VN!
The 10 point solution of the N.L.F. reflects its serious attitude and goodwill in finding out a correct settlement for the
S.V.N. problem..."
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53) "LETTER OF LAWYER NGUYEN HUU THO, PRESIDENT OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SVNNFL, to G.I's and Progressive
Americans in South Vietnam on the occasion of the Fall offensive to end the war in VN"
Scope and Contents note
"...On behalf of the South Vietnamese people, I warmly welcome the noble love for peace and justice of the progressive people
in the US. I also warmly acclame
[sic] Americans officers and men and progressive Americans in South VN for their timely and courageous response to the rise of
struggle on October, 15..."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
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54) "LETTER OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN SOUTH
VIETNAM"
Scope and Contents note
Includes long letter.
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55) "A MOTION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES"
Scope and Contents note
"We are officers and men...captured in various battles...We, and thousands of American GI's like us, have been sent 10.000
miles to destroy and kill people who are only guilty of defending their country as we would do if aggressed in our homes.
We have been deceived by you into being used as tools of destruction..."
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56) "NEWS OF MUTINY"
Scope and Contents note
"On October 12th, 1968, more than 1.000 American soldiers including 200 regular troops, nearly 1,000 reserve troops and veterans
poured into the streets of San Francisco to demonstrate against the Johnson's war...G.I.'s! Think it over, talk it over, act
together like the San Francisco soldiers did, their acts are very worth to the good tradition of Americans."
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57) "OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE US AND SATELLITES' ARMY"
Scope and Contents note
"The Vietnamese nation deeply cherishes peace but never yields to any enemy. Nothing can resist the power of a nation, wholly
united and determined to sacrifice for independence and Freedom...Do act upon human conscience to oppose your going to slaughter
the Vietnamese people..."
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58) "GI's!"
Scope and Contents note
"...What have happened (taken place) before your eyes in Vietnam? It is massacre no spare old folks, children and pregnant
women..."
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60) "BIG FIRMS GET RICH..."
Scope and Contents note
Recto: Cartoon. "Big firms get rich..." "Two things, Congressman-a nice juicy war contract for me and a draft deferment for
my son."
Verso: "...G.I's die." Includes list of casualties.
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61) "DOUBTS AND DISCOURAGEMENT..."
Scope and Contents note
Extracts from the International Herald Tribune, July 1967.
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62) "OUR RESOUNDING VICTORIES"
Scope and Contents note
Published by the Liberation Army. Includes a list of many victories of the South Vietnamese people and Army.
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63) "THE REAL NATURE OF JOHNSON's LIMITED BOMBING OVER NORTH VIETNAM AND HIS SO-CALLED PEACE INTENTION"
Scope and Contents note
"...he pretended this was one of the proofs of his peace intention. What is the real nature of the matter?
There are four major reasons that caused Johnson to take this decision:
1. He has suffered a series of heavy setbacks...
2. The movement of protest and condemnation...
3. The more victorious the Vietnamese, the more acute US inner contraditions
[sic]. Johnson's Vietnam policy has been criticised from all sides...
4. The US economy is meeting with great difficulties...
In sum Johnson's lipmited
[sic] bombing is by no means a proof of his peace intention but rather the result of his lamentable failure in VN and a mark of
a new victory on the part of the Vietnamese people..."
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64) "JOHNSON PLAYS ON WORDS WHILE G.I.s DIE!"
Scope and Contents note
Recto: "...American G.I.s! It's high time for you to state the blunt truth about this war. Don't allow Johnson to let you
sink ever deeper into a quagmire and a blind alley. Unlike Johnson, you have a way out!..."
Verso: Picture with this title: "After the battle: Dead marines are moved out of the ambush area."
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65) "DO ACT IN THE SENSE OF CONSCIENCE OF THE GENUINE AMERICAN"
Scope and Contents note
"...GI!...Join the progressive American people, you should demand:
- The immediate end of Johnson-Mc Namara's aggressive war in SVN.
- The withdrawal of all U.S. troops from SVN.
- The restoration of true peace in Vietnam.
- The settlement of the VN internal affairs by the Vietnamese people themselves.
These are the genuine American's sensible and legal deeds that can save your life, recover your own honor as well as that
of the USA."
Includes Vietnamese translation.
box 1
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Scope and Contents
Contains items 1-21e above. Please see digital object records.
box 2
Original materials
Scope and Contents
Contains items 22a-65 above. Please see digital object records.
