Preliminary Inventory to the Eric Erickson papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Eric Erickson papers
Date (inclusive): 1963-1990
Collection Number: 84011
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
18 manuscript boxes
(7.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, notes, bulletins, newsletters, clippings, and serial issues, relating to the 1963 coup overthrowing
President Ngô Dình Diêm in South Vietnam and to the question of American involvement in the coup.
Creator:
Erickson, Eric, 1927-1996
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1984.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Eric Erickson Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical / Historical
Technical writer, United States Army Concept Team in Vietnam, 1963-1964.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, bulletins, newsletters, clippings, and serial issues, relating to the 1963 coup overthrowing
President Ngô Dình Diêm in South Vietnam and to the question of American involvement in the coup.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
Vietnam (Republic) -- History -- Coup d'état, 1963
Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963
United States. Army Concept Team in Vietnam
box 1
Preliminary outline of projected book
box 1
Hoover Institution agreement
box 1
Open letter to Ministers' Vietnam Committee
box 1
Original draft and distribution of open letter
box 1
Letters of transmittal of open letter
box 1
Correspondence with Rev. Raymond de Jaegher
box 3
South Vietnam Liberation Front 14-Point Policy
box 3
Personalism and national policy in Vietnam
box 3
Incomplete and undated press clippings
box 4
Frank Coniff,
New York Journal-American
box 4
Gene Gregory,
Times of Vietnam
box 4
Time and
Newsweek
April 1963-January 1964
box 4
Clippings of exceptional interest
box 4
Special material on Tri Quang
box 4
True report of assassination of Diem and Nhu
box 5
Post-coup - and later
1963
1964
box 6
Erickson, "The Incredible Buddhist Affair"
box 6
"Assault on an Ally"
(Nation's Security)
box 6
Gregory, "What Is Behind the Buddhist Affair"
box 6
Higgins, "A Visit to Xa Loi" (original draft)
box 6
Documents of the Council against Communist Aggression with letter from A. McDowell
box 6
Joint communique - Interministerial Committee and Buddhist Delegation
box 6
"Vietnam Presse" and "Rivarol"
(September 1963) (September 1963)
box 7
Vol. 109, no. 112 (Sen. Thurmond insertion of Erickson letter)
box 7
Vol. 109, no. 127 (Rep. Edna Kelly insertion of Erickson letter)
box 8
Times of Vietnam
June-July 1963
box 8
Times of Vietnam Magazine (Sunday)
June-October 1963
box 9
Times of Vietnam
August 1963
box 10
Times of Vietnam
September 1963
box 11
Times of Vietnam, and last issue
October 1963 1 November 1963
box 12
Saigon Daily News
November 21, 1963-January 31, 1964
box 13
Saigon Post
January 6-31, 1964
box 14
Le Journal d'Extreme Orient
September-November 1963
General Physical Description note: (miscellaneous issues)
box 14
Nouvelles Dimanche
General Physical Description note: (2 issues)
box 15
Pacific Stars and Stripes
August-December 1963
General Physical Description note: (miscellaneous issues)
box 15
Observer
General Physical Description note: (3 issues)
box 16
U.S. magazines, concerning Vietnam
late 1963,
box 16
USIS Weekly Bulletin
August-October 1963
General Physical Description note: (miscellaneous issues)
box 16
U.S.O.M. annual report
1962
box 16
Army Information Digest
January 1963
box 17
Asian magazines
late 1963
box 18
Material not yet described
