Abstract: Described in this finding aid is a small portion of the film included in three different archival collections: the Vietnam Archives Television Newsfilm, 1965-1972; and the 1968-1972 television newsfilm of two Madison, Wisconsin TV stations, WISC and WKOW. The footage is what was shot, not what was broadcast. Its subject matter covers the entire range of Madison local news and features in the years 1968-1972 and coverage of state political and legislative events, the University of Wisconsin, comments on national events by Wisconsin members of Congress, activity generated by local, state, and national election campaigns, and public support and opposition to the Vietnam War.

Abstract: Papers (bulk 1963-1972) collected by Peggy Terry while working as a civil rights activist and as editor of The Firing Line, a community newspaper published by Jobs or Income Now (JOIN) Community Union in Uptown Chicago. Subjects documented include Terry's participation in sit-ins organized by the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), her involvement in planning the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. in 1968 as a member of the event's steering committee, and her work for JOIN Community Union in assisting poor white southerners who had migrated to Chicago from Appalachia. Also documented is her opposition to the Vietnam War and her Vice Presidential campaign as Eldridge Cleaver's running-mate on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket in the 1968 Presidential election.

Abstract: Papers, mainly 1946-1973, of Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin state legislator (1947-1953), Seventh District congressman (1953-1969), and U.S. Secretary of Defense (1969-1973) documenting his political career. Also present are brief papers of Melvin R. Laird Sr. (1877-1946), also a Wisconsin legislator, and grandfather William D. Connor (died 1944), a former lieutenant governor and state Republican Party leader. Photographs received with the collection consist primarily of publicity shots of Laird, his family, office visitors, and state and national leaders (including Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon), as well as visual documentation of his interest in military and health care issues.

Abstract: Papers of Robert Kastenmeier, a longstanding Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Wisconsin's Second District, documenting his career in Congress (1959-1991). As a member of the House Judiciary Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, the papers reflect Kastenmeier's interests and work on copyright and patent laws, intellectual property rights, civil rights, civil liberties, the courts, criminal code, prison reform, and prisoners' rights. The papers also document Kastenmeier's involvement in the impeachment proceedings of Judge Harry E. Claiborne and President Nixon; and his leadership role in the Liberal Group and the Democratic Study Group. Included are correspondence files, bill files, publicity and press files, legislative and committee files, and campaign related materials (including sound, film and video recordings).

Abstract: Records, mainly 1967-1975, of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national organization formed in 1967 by Vietnam veterans who favored military withdrawal from Vietnam. After the war, VVAW worked for improved services and benefits for Vietnam veterans. Included are records of the national office, which was located in New York City and then Chicago, documenting national programs and activities, especially participation in anti-war demonstrations and the Winter Soldier war crimes investigation, as well as support for the rights of active-duty G.I.s around the world and political prisoners such as the Gainesville Eight, Gary Lawton, Ashby Leach, and the Leavenworth Brothers. Of special note is correspondence with various incarcerated prisoners. In addition to records from the national office there are records created by three local chapters: Brooklyn-Northern New Jersey (later Clarence Fitch), Madison, and Milwaukee, all focusing on the post-Vietnam War period and primarily documenting Agent Orange work and involvement in the peace movement during the 1980s and 1990s.

Abstract: Papers of Robert Lasch, a journalist who was editorial writer for the Chicago Sun-Times (1942-1950) and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1950-1957) and editor of the editorial page of the latter paper (1957-1971). Well known for his columns on civil liberties and McCarthyism, Lasch also wrote in opposition to the Vietnam War and in 1966 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on that subject. Correspondence, 1942-1971, is both general and from readers. Among the prominent letter writers are Herbert L. Block, Marquis W. Childs, Henry Steele Commager, J. William Fulbright, Hubert H. Humphrey, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Adlai E. Stevenson, and W. Stuart Symington. Office memoranda include exchanges with Joseph Pulitzer Sr., Marshall Field III, and members of their respective staffs. Documenting his writings are editorial reprints; free-lance articles, particularly for The Progressive,The Reporter, and The Nation; and several unpublished manuscripts. Indicative of his research methodology are subject files and notes on civil rights, national defense, McCarthyism, pacifism during the Vietnam War, federal aid to education, the presidential campaigns of 1952 and 1956, the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and his Pulitzer Prize award.

Abstract: Records of the Wisconsin Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and of its two predecessor bodies, the Wisconsin Congregational Conference and the Evangelical and Reformed (E and R) Church in Wisconsin. Subjects documented include church involvement in the areas of evangelism, temperance, ministerial welfare, benevolences, and religious and secular education. Tape recordings document annual meetings, oral history interviews, and special events.

Abstract: Papers of Staughton Lynd, a leftist historian and labor lawyer who was prominent in both the civil rights and the anti-war movements. The majority of the papers cover the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, with the emphasis on the varied social movements and radical activities with which he was affiliated rather than on Lynd himself. Articles and writings, correspondence, and clippings and other printed matter refer to campus protests of the 1960s; civil rights; the Vietnam War; tax reform; the Kennedy assassination; Jobs or Income Now (JOIN), a group which sought to organize the poor in Chicago; union organizing, especially among public employees in the Chicago and Gary, Indiana, area; the Mass Party Organizing Committee, a group which attempted to formulate a mass, Leninist, working-class party; and the New American Movement, a group which sought to build a mass-based democratic socialist movement in the United States. There are also files on Lynd's attempt to bring a leftist perspective to the historical profession and to the American Historical Association.

Abstract: Records, mainly 1972-1975, of the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), a national organization that was formed late in the anti-Vietnam war movement (1972) and which emphasized public education and legislative lobbying. Included are correspondence from IPC affiliates in California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and other states in which the group was well organized; agenda, minutes, reports, and position papers relating to meetings and conferences of the national steering committee; and subject files. Of special note within the last section are speeches and writings by activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, the best known of IPC's leaders; notes on an organizers' school; files on an encounter with Nixon security officials at the dedication of the Dirksen Library in Pekin, Illinois; and material on IPC's participation in the United Campaign including committee minutes and extensive notes about a 1974 visit to Saigon. Sound and video material in the collection is extensive and provides better documentation of Hayden and Fonda's activities than the manuscript collection.

Abstract: Tape-recorded interviews with 116 women conducted as part of an oral history project undertaken by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin to capture the experiences of Wisconsin women on the home front and, to a limited extent, in military service during World War II. Interviewees were selected to include a broad cross-section of women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, rural and urban experience, and workers in and outside the home. Topics discussed include changes in lifestyle prompted by the war, community ties and support systems, and attitudes about the war. Interviews were conducted by Kathryn Borkowski, Stephen Kolman, Tracey Deutsch, and Kristina Ackley between January 1992 and April 1994. All interviews have been fully transcribed; the transcripts are on paper and also have been preserved in electronic form. Also included in the collection are contemporary photographs of many of the interviewees, as well as historical photographs relating to their war time experiences.

Abstract: Papers and photographs pertaining to the service of specialist William Rettenmund, a Verona, Wisconsin resident who served as a flight crew chief and gunner with the 162nd Assault Helicopter Squadron during the Vietnam War. The manuscripts include military records, letters, identification and membership cards, newspaper articles, certificates, and ephemeral materials collected in Vietnam. His military papers include service records, orders issued while in Vietnam, special citations and nominations for medals and awards, and maintenance inspection forms for helicopters. The letters are primarily those written by Rettenmund to his parents, grandmother, younger siblings, and a few friends. Most of the letters were written to his parents and discuss things such as the welfare of the family, life in the Army during basic training, and discussions on the conditions in Vietnam. Two letters (April 5, 1966 and July 13, 1966) describe his involvement in two helicopter crashes due to pilot error, and discuss how he reacted to the crash and helped others to safety. A few letters have drawing done by Rettenmund, including one of his friends in basic training (June 26, 1965) and one of Santa Clause, with his reindeer pulling a helicopter 'sled' (December 21, 1966). The letter from Doug Murray, writer of the comic series The 'Nam, was written in response to a letter Rettenmund wrote about the comic. In the letter, Murray thanks him for the compliments and says that he was always glad to see helicopters arriving on the battlefield. The newspaper clippings include an oversized article on Rettenmund's service that reprints portions of two of his letters home. There are also clippings of anti-war poems and a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman saying 'War is Hell,' along with a humorous article about a serviceman trying to buy a soda in Vietnam. His ephemeral materials include two propaganda pamphlets distributed to convince the Viet Cong to surrender, and holiday menus from Thanksgiving meals. A particularly interesting item is a membership card for the Domain of the Golden Dragon, an honorary club given to servicemen who cross the International Date Line on a ship. Also included are his personal accounts written for the Madison, Wisconsin Deadly Writers Patrol, and also include a poem he wrote and dedicated to the men of the 162nd. The writings provide detailed accounts of his missions and experiences during the war, elaborating on his support and rescue missions, being wounded, and describing life in the Army during the war. Rettenmund also worked exstensively with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in identifying the Huey helicopter in its Vietnam War display. A newspaper article pertaining to his investigative work, along with photographs of the helicopter during its service in Vietnam, are included in the collection. Most of the photographs in the collection are identified and include images of Rettenmund in basic training, in Vietnam, and at postwar reunions with former crewmen and families. The Vietnam images provide aerial shots of the terrain, villages, and military operations while flying missions. There are three photographs taken by Rettenmund while out on a mission that show aerial strikes taking place in the distance. Another image shows infantry engaged in a battle while his helicopter provides cover fire. Because of his work as a crew chief, the collection includes a number of images of helicopter maintenance and damage assessment. One very interesting image includes Rettenmund walking away from one of the crashes he mentioned in a letter to his parents. The collection also contains the scrapbook of Russell Rettenmund, a cousin of William's who served in Vietnam, too. Russell entered the service in 1964 and was assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment while in Vietnam. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about the service of Russell, his brother Richard who also served in Vietnam, as well as William. It also includes photographs of Russell and fellow servicemen relaxing during basic training and while in Vietnam. A particularly interesting article in the scrapbook is one in which Russell gives his opinions on protesters of the war. In it he says that he was 'all for free speech, but not when it threatens the national security.' The collection includes service records for both Russell and Richard, two photographs taken by Richard while in Vietnam, and five additional photographs taken by Russell.

Abstract: Papers and photographs pertaining to the career Air Force service of Colonel Donald L. Heiliger, a Madison, Wisconsin native who served as a pilot in Vietnam, was shot down and held as a prisoner for six years, and served as an air attache' to several different countries. The collection is comprised of personal letters, invitations, correspondence, flight records, training materials, service records, military papers, certificates, information articles, and photographs documenting Heiliger's entire Air Force career. The majority of manuscripts pertain to his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. Heiliger was captured in 1967 after ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief that had been hit by ground fire while flying a bombing mission over North Vietnam. Included are a few letters written by Heiliger to his parents and to his first wife, Carol, during his time as a POW. There are also letters written by Heiliger's mother to him while he was a prisoner. There is correspondence his parents received from government agencies and private organizations over Heiliger's status as a POW and efforts to have him released. Also found is a large collection of correspondence Heiliger received after his return home in 1973, mainly from people who had worn his name on POW remembrance bracelets. Also included are cards and welcome home signs that were made by Wisconsin schoolchildren and Madison residents. Other manuscripts pertaining to his POW time include materials pertaining to his reorientation program after his release, regulations and instructions regarding mailing items to POWs, and articles collected by his parents pertaining to the Vietnam War and American prisoners. There is also a large collection of materials pertaining to his post-Vietnam service as an air attache' with Uruguay, Chile, and Israel. Included are military papers and reports from his time spent working with each country, along with a large collection of personal invitations and thank you letters he received. Other manuscripts from his service include military papers and reports from his ROTC training and his service as a navigations instructor, flight records spanning his entire career, medical evaluations, and various certificates and promotion-related documents. Photographs in the collection also cover his entire service. Included are group images from his ROTC and Air Force navigation training classes, a few images of Heiliger posing next to an F-105, and a group image of he and his fellow pilots on nuclear alert while stationed in South Korea. Images from his attache' service include group photographs at events, Heiliger posing with various United States Air Force generals, and some group images from his assignments abroad. Of particular interest is a photograph taken during the signing of the first agreement between the United States Air Force and the Israeli Air Force. A few images of 9/11 attack on the Pentagon round out the photographs. Also included in the collection is a visual recording of a press conference given by Heiliger after release and return to the United States in 1973. The film shows Heiliger answering questions about his time in prison, his thoughts about the war protesters, and how he was adjusting back into everyday life. The end of the film is comprised of footage taken of Heiliger landing at an airport and meeting his parents.

Abstract: This collection contains case files, statistical reports, minutes, correspondence, and policy statements generated by the University Committee on Occupational Deferment. The Occupational Deferment Committee was established in 1940 to cooperate with local draft boards in all matters concerning deferment of University of Wisconsin-Madison staff members and students. It provided military counseling and information on draft policies, submitted documentation to draft boards to support requests for reclassification, and on behalf of the University requested deferment of employees deemed essential. The committee operated through World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It originally represented the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, UW-Milwaukee campus, the University Center System, and the Extension Division, then expanded to include representatives for UW-Parkside and UW-Green Bay.

Abstract: This collection includes a variety of published and unpublished booklets, pamphlets, flyers, newspapers, newspaper clippings, magazines, articles, essays, book chapters, etc. The majority of the materials relate to feminism, women's liberation, Vietnam War, gay and lesbian issues, African-American women, and the Black Panther Party. There are a few documents directly related to events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1960s, especially the Vietnam War protests. Materials are both from national and local sources.

Abstract: This collection includes miscellaneous published and unpublished paper records related to a specific subject area. In addition to individual subjects, research areas, and events, subjects also include entities related to or units within the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Press releases, news clippings, correspondence, reports, and many more document types are represented.

Abstract: Speech and audience questions, October 4, 1972, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Benjamin Spock, the well-known pediatrician, author, and anti-war activist during the course of his People's Party Presidential campaign. The tape includes an explanation of the party platform and a defense of his views on family life and child rearing against criticism from feminists in the audience.

Abstract: Papers of Halstead, a Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate and leading opponent of U.S. involvement in the War in Vietnam. The collection consists of correspondence and research files for his book Out Now: A Participant's Account of the American Movement Against the Vietnam War (1978) and records of various anti-war organizations, most notably the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC), National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), and the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC). Also included are subject files containing publicity material, press releases, correspondence, agendas and proposals for individual conferences, demonstrations, and GI civil liberties. In addition there is a tape recording of an oral history interview given by Halstead about the origins of the anti-war movement and photographs of protests.

Abstract: Records generated and collected by the United States Servicemen's Fund (USSF), an anti-Vietnam War organization created to raise funds to benefit Vietnam War servicemen. In late 1971, USSF supported 51 underground GI newspapers and 32 coffeehouses, bookstores and counseling centers; and sponsored performances of the FTA (Free Theater Associates) Show in the United States and abroad. Administration records consist of correspondence and internal memoranda that describe USSF's projects and administrative workings. Records of Support Our Soldiers (SOS), a San Francisco group closely allied with USSF are also included. Project records describe the work of some organizations that received USSF support. The work of other antiwar groups and causes are described in USSF reference materials. General newspaper clippings and foreign press accounts of four antiwar activists' trip to North Vietnam to escort home three U.S. prisoners of war are also included. The activists were members of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam.

Abstract: The Social Action Vertical File is comprised of folders of documents which do not in themselves constitute manuscript collections, but which contain materials of interest to the researcher in contemporary United States history. The majority of the collection dates from the 1960s and 1970s, and pertains to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the period, although there is also material generated by a wide range of liberal, black nationalist, feminist, peace, socialist, communist, labor, and other contemporary social action groups. Some right-wing material is also included. Many of the folders contain merely a few sheets, and most consist largely of printed or near-print ephemeral materials, such as leaflets, handouts, circular letters, mimeographed items, and near-print newsletters and flyers, rather than original documents.

Abstract: Records of a Madison, Wisconsin organization established in 1966 to organize and promote local draft resistance, draft counseling, and anti-war activity during the Vietnam War era. The records consist of administrative reports and minutes of the Madison and Chicago regional offices, publicity and outreach material, subject files, and papers on local programs. The collection primarily documents the conscientious objection program, but there are also files on community and state relations, youth programs, national and international service organizations, and cooperation with groups such as the Friends of AFSC (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Peaceful Alternatives Through Non-Violent Action (PATNA), an AFSC program initiated by Paul Fleer that later became independent. The conscientious objection files consist of records on some individuals whom AFSC counseled, together with information on the Wisconsin Project and other local draft-counseling efforts.

Abstract: Records, mainly 1963-1993, of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think tank founded in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin. The records consist of administrative files; correspondence, writings, and subject files of individual fellows; and reference material. Senior fellows Richard Barnet, Saul Landau, Isabel Letelier and Marcus Raskin, and executive directors Robert Borosage and Diana DeVegh are most extensively documented, with less material about other members Robb Burlage, John Cavanagh, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chester Hartman, Paul Jacobs, Milton Kotler, Michael Moffitt, Sasha Natapoff, Orlando Letelier, Gareth Porter, Julia Sweig, Barbara Wein, and Roger Wilkins. Administrative records include Board of Trustees minutes; fundraising information; formal and continuing education programs; a library of brief writings and other papers by fellows and associates; and subject files including incomplete financial records, congressional seminar files, and fragmentary minutes of the Transnational Institute (TNI), an IPS subsidiary.

Abstract: An artificial collection of paper artifacts and paper items of visual rather than informational value separated from other collections in the Archives. The material is arranged using a classification scheme similar to that used for the Photography Classified Files. Major topics that are documented include advertising, business, celebrations and holidays, education, food and consumer products, events, politics, social organizations, sports, transportation, and war. In addition, there are substantial files of artifact-like paper items such as dance programs, inaugural invitations, letterhead stationery depicting Wisconsin business buildings, and business trade cards. Although the focus of the collection is Wisconsin, some of the material is national in scope.

Abstract: Vietnam War posters published by various anti-war organizations including the American Friends Service Committee, Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam, National Peace Action Coalition, People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, Indochina Program, Indochina Information Project, David Fine Freedom Committee, Vietnam Moratorium Committee, and GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee.

Abstract: Papers of Richard Critchfield, an author and foreign correspondent known for his coverage of Far Eastern events and reports on third world cultures and the impact on them of agricultural and technological change. Although the bulk of the papers consists of writings, the correspondence file contains important exchanges with his newspaper and book editors and personal correspondence with his family. There are also memoranda about events in Vietnam, exchanges with staff at the Alicia Patterson Fund which sponsored some of his research, and correspondence about political situations in the various countries which Critchfield studied. The collection contains substantial documentation on five books, The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War (1968), The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures (1973), Shahhat, An Egyptian (1978), Villages (1981), and Those Days: An American Album. Also in the collection are notes on interviews with Chester B. Bowles, John Kenneth Galbraith, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Robert S. McNamara, Anwar Sadat, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Abstract: Papers and negatives of Dennis L. Boyer, a weather observer in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. The majority of the collection consists of literature, flyers, and posters relating to anti-war organizations in the early 1970's, particularly the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). These materials give an idea of the aims and scope of such organizations. Also documented are several anti-war trials, including the Gainesville Conspiracy. Correspondence, mostly letters written to Boyer during his Air Force service, describe events on the home front. Boyer's letters to his parents, and especially to his friend Peter, describe his time in Vietnam and his growing discontent with the conflict. The collection also contains negatives of photographs that Boyer took while in Vietnam. Most of the shots are of landscapes and buildings, but some show unidentified US military personnel.