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Title: Robert F. Turner papers
Date (inclusive): 1958-1975
Collection Number: 74040
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
52 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 card file box, 17 envelopes, 1 album box, 1 phonotape cassette, 1 phonorecord
(25.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, reports, speeches, press releases, clippings, printed matter, sound recordings, photographs, and
memorabilia, relating to political, social and cultural conditions in Vietnam and to the Vietnamese War
Creator:
Turner, Robert F.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1974.
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[Identification of item], Robert F. Turner Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Abbreviations
- ARVNArmy of the Republic of Vietnam
- COSVNCentral Office for South Vietnam. Communist Command of the Forces in South Vietnam
- JUSPAOJoint U.S. Public Affairs Office, Saigon
- MACVMilitary Advisory Command Vietnam
- MIAMissing in Action
- MLMission in Charge of Liaison
- MRCMilitary Revolutionary Council
- NFL SVNfounded in 1960 (to struggle in order to oppose the RVN administration and the U.S., and to progress toward neutrality and
reunification with the North)
- NLFNational Front for Liberation
- NVANorth Vietnamese Army
- PAVNPeoples Army of the Republic of Vietnam
- PNFPatriotic Neutralist Forces (Laos)
- PRPPeople's Revolutionary Party
- PRYLPeople's Revolutionary Party Youth League
- PSYOPSPsychological Operations
Quoc Dan Dang Nationalist Party
Armed Forces of Vietnam
- RFRegional Forces in South Vietnam
- PFPopular Forces in South Vietnam
- SEATOSoutheast Asia Treaty Organization
- TetContraction of Nguyen Dan Tiet, meaning Festival of the first day of the year. Chinese in origin, the holiday symbolizes the
beginning of the Oriental New Year (Lunar New Year)
- USAIDU.S. Agency for International Development
- USIAU.S. Information Agency
- USOMUnites States Operations Mission
- VCAdministration Machinery in South Vietnam:
- (COSVN)1. The Central Office of South Vietnam
- (PRP)2. The Vietnam People's Revolutionary Party
- (NFLSV)3. The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
- VCIViet Cong Infrastructure
- VIVAVictory in Vietnam Association; a nationwide student organization, since 1967 in Los Angeles, and supporting our government
and our military
- VNQDDVietnam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnam Nationalist Party)
- VWPVietnam Workers' Party
- YICAYearbook on International Communist Affairs
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Sound recordings
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
Vietnam -- Politics and government
United States -- Armed Forces
United States. Embassy (Vietnam)