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  • Title: Iris R. Powers papers
    Date (bulk): 1972-1973
    Collection Number: 83013
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes (1.6 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Transcripts of meetings, correspondence, writings, testimony, and printed matter relating to readjustment of American prisoners of war returning from the Vietnamese War.
    Creator: Powers, Iris R.
    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

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1983.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Iris R. Powers papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical note

    1917 Born
    1969 Power's son, CWO Lowell S. Powers, reported missing after his plane crashed in Vietnam
    1971 National Coordinator of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
    1972-1973 Chairman of the Repatriation, Rehabilitation and Readjustment (Triple R) Committee
    1971 Consultant to the Center for Prisoner of War Studies regarding family matters
    1997 Died
    1970-1971 Consultant to the Department of the Army

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The Repatriation, Rehabilitation, and Readjustment Committee (Triple R)files consist of meeting transcripts, correspondence, writings, testimony, and printed matter accounting the treatment of American POWs (Prisoner of War) and of those missing in action (MIAs). The Personal papers file includes photographs, certificates, hearings, presentations, and printed materials on the Triple R Committee and testimonies of American POW experience in Southeast Asia.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Prisoners of war
    Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese
    National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia