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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

    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 1974.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Robert F. Turner Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Abbreviations

    1. ARVNArmy of the Republic of Vietnam
    2. COSVNCentral Office for South Vietnam. Communist Command of the Forces in South Vietnam
    3. JUSPAOJoint U.S. Public Affairs Office, Saigon
    4. MACVMilitary Advisory Command Vietnam
    5. MIAMissing in Action
    6. MLMission in Charge of Liaison
    7. MRCMilitary Revolutionary Council
    8. 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)
    9. NLFNational Front for Liberation
    10. NVANorth Vietnamese Army
    11. PAVNPeoples Army of the Republic of Vietnam
    12. PNFPatriotic Neutralist Forces (Laos)
    13. PRPPeople's Revolutionary Party
    14. PRYLPeople's Revolutionary Party Youth League
    15. PSYOPSPsychological Operations
    Quoc Dan Dang Nationalist Party
    Armed Forces of Vietnam
    1. RFRegional Forces in South Vietnam
    2. PFPopular Forces in South Vietnam
    3. SEATOSoutheast Asia Treaty Organization
    4. 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)
    5. USAIDU.S. Agency for International Development
    6. USIAU.S. Information Agency
    7. USOMUnites States Operations Mission
    8. VCAdministration Machinery in South Vietnam:
    9. (COSVN)1. The Central Office of South Vietnam
    10. (PRP)2. The Vietnam People's Revolutionary Party
    11. (NFLSV)3. The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
    12. VCIViet Cong Infrastructure
    13. VIVAVictory in Vietnam Association; a nationwide student organization, since 1967 in Los Angeles, and supporting our government and our military
    14. VNQDDVietnam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnam Nationalist Party)
    15. VWPVietnam Workers' Party
    16. 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)