Part 1 (Mss 370, PH 4580, Disc 154A, Audio 898A, VHA 642, VBC 108-109): Original Collection, 1967-2006
Physical Description: 27.4 c.f. (23 record center cartons, 8 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1 card box, and 1 oversize folder), 0.4 c.f. of photographs and drawings (1 archives box), 48 negatives on 10 strips (3 folders), 18 transparencies, 2 discs, 33 tape recordings, and 3 videorecordings 
Scope and Content Note

The records of VVAW document both its national and local anti-war and veteran-support activities. However, coverage is incomplete, mainly covering only the years 1967 to 1975. The absence of early historical documentation is explained by the fact that membership was small at that time and the structure was very casual. Additionally, the fact that VVAW was able to find an ongoing purpose in the post-war period may account for some of the missing records. In 2008, when the records at the Historical Society were arranged and described for research use, VVAW was still in existence with a national office in Chicago. It is assumed that the records documenting VVAW's later years are housed at the Chicago office.

Some of the incomplete documentation concerns the role of Senator John F. Kerry in VVAW in 1971. Little primary information about him is included. The collection includes letters to Kerry written in care of the VVAW office, copies of his speeches and remarks, newspaper clippings, and correspondence with the publisher about The New Soldier, the book which Kerry authored with VVAW.

In addition to records from the national office, the files of three local chapters (Brooklyn/Northern New Jersey, Madison, and Milwaukee) are part of the collection. The records from all three cover the post-Vietnam War period. As a consequence, they provide the best documentation in the collection on VVAW's concern with Agent Orange and its participation in the peace movement during the post-Vietnam era. The records of all three are also similar in that few true organizational records such as minutes, reports, or financial records are included.

The collection is arranged as ADMINISTRATIVE AND POLICY RECORDS, LOCAL FILES IN THE NATIONAL OFFICE, SUBJECT FILES, CHAPTER RECORDS, and VISUAL MATERIALS.

The ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS series include Steering Committee minutes and proceedings, general correspondence, and publications. Because of the small membership during the early years, documentation about policy and administration for this period is limited. From the second phase of VVAW's organizational history when policy was made by an executive committee, there are incomplete files of memoranda, minutes, correspondence, agenda, and reports. S general correspondence, and publications. Because of the small membership during the early years, documentation about policy and administration for this period is limited. From the second phase of VVAW's organizational history when policy was made by an executive committee, there are incomplete files of memoranda, minutes, correspondence, agenda, and reports. Still later, after decision-making was transferred to a National Steering Committee (NSC), which met several times a year, there are minutes, reports, agenda, planning materials, posits, general correspondence, and publications. Because of the small membership during the early years, documentation about policy and administration for this period is limited. From the second phase of VVAW's organizational history when policy was made by an executive committee, there are incomplete files of memoranda, minutes, correspondence, agenda, and reports. Still later, after decision-making was transferred to a National Steering Committee (NSC), which met several times a year, there are minutes, reports, agenda, planning materials, position papers, and notes. The NSC records are present with increasing completeness through the July, 1975 meeting, but thereafter the records again become incomplete, and for many later years, nonexistent. For 1971, a year of important national actions, there are also minutes for weekly meetings of the New York office staff. There are no national financial records in the collection.

Information pertaining to the early history of VVAW (1967 to 1970, and in particular to 1967) can also be found in the general correspondence section of the Administrative Records. This correspondence consists primarily of letters written by January Barry Crumb, the president and co-founder, and it documents attempts to identify like-minded veterans, make contacts with political leaders such as William J. Fulbright, and work on fundraising for a New York Times ad. Also here is the first mailing, distributed when the organization was only two months old, and a draft constitution. Of special interest is a letter to Dave Dellinger explaining why VVAW failed to participate in a National Mobilization Committee demonstration. After 1970, the general correspondence is miscellaneous and very incomplete.

The Administrative Records also include publications issued by the national office. Several titles have been separated from the collection and are available instead in the Historical Society Library. These include First Casualty (later known as Winter Soldier, Veteran, and Guidon), a national newsletter, and several specialized newsletters such as G.I. News, published for the national G.I. organizing project, and Inside-Out, a newsletter for prisoners. However, unnumbered issues of the general newsletter remain with the papers. Also in the archival collection are numerous pamphlets and flyers, the majority of which are undated. In general, short runs of publications are in the collection, while more complete holdings are available in the Library.

Because of VVAW's decentralized organization, excellent information about local actions can be found in the section entitled LOCAL FILES IN THE NATIONAL OFFICE. This series consists of copies of records from the local chapters and multi-state regions that were sent to the national office. Included are correspondence and round robin reports, as well as copies of locally-produced flyers, newsletters, and policy statements to be considered at National Steering Committee meetings. Taken together, the local and regional files provide information about the anti-war veterans' movement throughout the country, as well as providing information about individuals who eventually rose to national leadership. VVAW activity was particularly strong in California, with other active locals in Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago, Columbus (Ohio), Dayton, Denver, Kansas City (Missouri), New York City, and St. Louis. Few of the local or regional files contain material more recent than 1976.

The alphabetical SUBJECT FILES cover numerous topics in which VVAW was interested or involved. Most extensively documented are the National Office Service-Peoples Counseling and Materials project, the National G.I. Project, the Winter Soldiers Investigation, and the defense of various political prisoners. Projects documented by smaller, but important quantities of material include amnesty; the Discharge Upgrade Program (DUP); Dewey Canyon III; Independence Day demonstrations in 1974 and 1976; Operation County Fair, which supported the Martin Luther King Jr. Clinic in Bogue Chitto, Alabama; the 1972 Republican Convention (Operation Last Patrol); and Operation Rapid American Withdrawal (RAW). Information on the ideological tensions within VVAW can be found in the Subject Files entitled “Organizational Split.” In general, the Subject Files consist of correspondence, memoranda, and flyers.

Many subject files document contacts with other anti-war and veterans organizations. Additionally, VVAW received mail from a large number of organizations with which it had no apparent involvement. These files have been removed to the Historical Society Library or to the Archives' Social Action Vertical File, although a few files of special interest have been retained in the VVAW collection. During the early 1970s, VVAW sent representatives to international peace conferences such as the International Commission of Inquiry into U.S. War Crimes in Indochina, the 1973 World Peace Conference in Moscow, several Japanese conferences on atomic weapons, and the Paris Peace Conference. The conference files have been weeded and only documentation concerning VVAW was retained.

The health effects of Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant used in Vietnam, first became an issue in 1978. Because the majority of the national office records predate that year, the files on Agent Orange are incomplete, consisting mainly of newspaper clippings, flyers, incomplete information on the class action suit brought by individual veterans against the manufacturers of Agent Orange, and reference material. To better identify and eliminate duplication within the Agent Orange reference material, some records of this type were shifted from the Madison and Milwaukee files to the national files.

A substantial portion of the collection concerns VVAW's support of veterans and active-duty soldiers whom they considered to be political prisoners. The defense of the Gainesville 8, most of whom were members of VVAW, is documented by mass mailings, photocopied clippings, and trial notes. There are virtually no trial proceedings, however. Other defense cases in which VVAW or its local chapters took a strong interest are those of Gary Lawton of the Riverside Prisoners, Ashby Leach, the Leavenworth Brothers, and Melvin Smith. Interest in the Leavenworth Brothers continued after their convictions, and there are exchanges with them by VVAW staffer Marla Watson after they were incarcerated in federal prisons at Marion, Illinois; Terre Haute, Indiana; and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Her correspondence, which includes some prisoners in addition to the Leavenworth Brothers, not only provides details about prison conditions, but also contains some information about activities in the Chicago office. VVAW's response to the general issue of political prisoners is also documented in the files of its National Political Defense Committee.

VVAW was not the first organization to undertake a service program for active-duty soldiers during the Vietnam era, and its formal activity did not begin until 1972, when Gary Steiger of the Dayton, Ohio chapter organized a local program known as the National Office Service-Peoples Counseling and Materials or, more often, by its acronym NOSCAM. In the Chicago area, one of the best service groups was the Chicago Area Military Project (CAMP), which published “CAMP News,” an informational newsletter. Because of internal conflicts in CAMP, in 1973 it dissolved and associated with VVAW as NOSCAM-Chicago. Eventually, both the Dayton and Chicago NOSCAM programs consolidated in VVAW's Chicago office and became part of the national G.I. assistance program (NGIP). This program was aimed not only at providing support, but also at recruiting new members. Both the pre-VVAW files of NOSCAM and CAMP are distinct sections within the Subject Files. The CAMP files, in particular, provide strong information about the national G.I. movement, documenting contacts with soldiers, soldier-support organizations, coffee-houses, and newspapers at posts around the country. There were also contacts with activist David Cortwright, the Rocky Mountain Military Project in Denver, and the Covered Wagon coffeehouse at Mountain Home Air Force Base. No records about contacts with active-duty soldiers in Vietnam are present, however. Records of VVAW's continuation of the work of CAMP and NOSCAM are arranged in the Subject Files under the heading “G.I. Project.” These files are best for soldiers who were stationed abroad and for sailors on board ship. Most extensive here are files on military personnel in London and at the Iwakuni and Yokosuka bases in Japan. There are also records for a national G.I. conference organized by VVAW in 1974.

VVAW's Winter Soldier Investigation, which took place in Detroit in January-February, 1971, is documented by transcripts of the testimony given by individual soldiers about their experiences in Vietnam; background questionnaires completed by individual soldiers, both those who testified as well as those who did not; clippings; and pages deleted from the testimony published by VVAW in 1972. This volume is available in the Historical Society Library.

Also in the collection are the CHAPTER RECORDS of three local organizations that were donated directly to the Historical Society. These chapters are Madison, Milwaukee, and the Brooklyn-North Jersey City chapters. The latter was eventually renamed in honor of Clarence Fitch. As stated above, these chapter records primarily date from the post-Vietnam War era and few true organizational records are included. The records of the Fitch chapter consist almost entirely of flyers and mass mailings for its early years. After 1988, the records become more complete, and the most recent records are supplemented by newsletters and the monthly chapter reports which contain meeting minutes that are housed in the Historical Society Library. The mass mailings have been organized into categories that correspond to organizational functions such as meeting announcements and agenda as well as subject categories such as opposition to U.S. policies in Nicaragua and the Persian Gulf and events marking Veterans Day and Independence Day. Only a few items are earlier than 1981. Of special note are the occasional essays of unknown authorship published about 1989 to 1991 on foreign policy issues. Because national records lack coverage of the 1980s and 1990s, the Fitch flyers provide the best documentation in the collection of VVAW's foreign policy positions during those years.

Information about the Madison chapter can be found dating from 1979. Madison membership was always small, and for many years Mary (Sukie) and Jim Wachtendonk and Dennis Kroll constituted its leadership. At the time the records were donated to the Historical Society, Kroll was the only Madison member. A large part of the correspondence here focuses on the Wachtendonks' efforts to bring the Agent Orange issue and his family's related health problems to public attention. The collection documents their involvement with the Dane County Agent Orange Committee in 1980, educational outreach through the Madison Vets House, and regulation of pesticides in Wisconsin. Jim Wachtendonk's experiences in Vietnam also found expression in music, and the collection includes several commercially-produced cassette recordings of his compositions.

The Milwaukee chapter files were originally in the custody of John Lindquist, who served as both Milwaukee and Wisconsin-Minnesota Region coordinator and later as a national officer. The files, however, primarily relate to his state and regional activities, with a special focus on his involvement in the Agent Orange issue. Like the Madison and Fitch chapter records, there are only limited quantities of minutes, reports, and true administrative records, and most of the records post-date the peak of the national VVAW activity. The correspondence is primarily personal in nature, with administration and policy issues of secondary importance. Because the national office records concern the years before the Agent Orange campaign, the Milwaukee records provide additional important documentation of that effort both in Wisconsin and the nation as a whole, such as Lindquist's 1982 publication, Agent Orange Dossier (1982). Lindquist's national VVAW efforts included responsibility for the Post-Vietnam Syndrome project (now called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), but little information about this topic is included. Milwaukee's newsletter, The Claymore Gazette, is available in the Historical Society Library, but untitled, undated, and incomplete issues have been retained with the papers. A substantial part of the Milwaukee records are the FBI files of Steven Lee Hawkins, a national leader in VVAW. Although Hawkins was not from Milwaukee, he gave his files to Lindquist for some undocumented reason.

The VISUAL MATERIALS series is divided into subseries by format: Photographs, Transparencies, Negatives, and Artwork. The arrangement of materials in these subseries mimics the series arrangement of the manuscript portion of the collection-Administrative and Policy Records, Local Files in the National Office, Subject Files, and Chapter Records-with the addition of a Miscellaneous category. The photographs, transparencies, and negatives document various VVAW demonstrations and activities at both national and local levels including the 1973 inauguration, Kent State, Liberated Barracks (Hawaii), the USS Coral Seas, and the Iraq War; prominent individuals including Bill Davis, Steve Grossman, and John Kerry; causes in which the VVAW was involved including prisoner defense, the G.I. Project; and general conditions for soldiers in Vietnam. Of note are images from a 1988 event of the Clarence Fitch Chapter, “Speak Out for Peace and Justice,” which includes images of activist Brian Willson. The Artwork subseries includes original art for the Chicago chapter newsletter.

Series: Administrative and Policy Records

By-laws and articles of incorporation

Statements of objectives

Brief histories

General information

Policy records and minutes

Executive and Steering Committee, 1970-1972

National Steering Committee (NSC), 1968-1975

Interim Committee, 1976

NSC, Scattered documents, 1978-1989

New York office staff meeting minutes, 1971

Miscellany

Memorabilia

Posters

Publications

Calendars (VVAW, 1983, and FTA, , 1972)

“Dear Veteran” letters, 1970

Miscellaneous publications

Newsletters (unnumbered)

Pamphlets

Press releases and statements

VVAW Press Service releases

“Ship without a Rudder” manuscript

General correspondence

1967 April-October

1967 November-1988, undated

Series: Local Files in the National Office

Regions

Alabama-Mississippi

California and California-Nevada, 1973-1975

Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, 1972-1974

Florida, 1973-1974

Idaho-Montana, 1971-1974

Illinois-Iowa, 1971-1983

Maryland-D.C.-Virginia, 1973-1974

New England, 1972-1976

New Mexico-Arizona, 1971-1974

New York-Northern New Jersey, 1973-1975

New York State, 1971-1974

Ohio

Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia, and Western Pennsylvania, 1972-1975

Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, 1973-1974

Texas, 1971-1976

Washington-Alaska, 1971-1973

Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia, 1971-1975

Local Chapters

Alaska, 1971, 1975

Arizona, 1971-1973

Arkansas

California

Long Beach, 1973-1976

Los Angeles, 1972-1978

Oakland-East Bay, 1973-1975

San Bernardino, 1971-1975

San Diego, 1972-1975

San Jose, 1972-1977

San Francisco, 1970-1974

Santa Barbara, 1973-1975

Miscellaneous chapters

Colorado

Boulder, 1973-1975

Colorado Springs, 1971-1976

Denver, 1971-1975

Connecticut, 1971-1974

Florida

Gainesville, 1971-1974

Miami, 1973-1975

Tampa, 1973-1975

Georgia, 1972-1974

Hawaii, 1972-1977

Illinois

Chicago

General files, 1974-1986

Newsletters, 1974-1987

Flyers

Lists

Parades

Veterans Yellow Pages

DeKalb

Indiana, 1973-1975

Japan

Kansas, 1971-1974

Kentucky

Louisiana, 1971-1974

Maine, 1973-1974

Maryland, 1970-1974

Massachusetts, 1971-1976

Michigan

Detroit, 1975-1978

Regional office, 1970-1975

Minnesota, 1972-1975

Miscellaneous chapters

Twin Cities, 1974-1980

Missouri

Kansas City

St. Louis, 1971-1976

Miscellaneous chapters

Nebraska, 1971-1972

New Hampshire, 1971-1975

New Jersey, 1972-1989

New Mexico, 1970-1975

New York

Buffalo, 1973-1975

University of Buffalo, 1972-1973

New York City

General records, 1973-1974

Publications, 1970-1975

Miscellaneous

Newsletters, 1973-1975

Boroughs, 1971-1982

Oneonta, 1974-1975

Rochester, 1973-1976

Syracuse, 1974-1975

Miscellaneous chapters

North Carolina, 1971-1975

North Dakota, 1973

Ohio

Cincinnati, 1972-1976

Columbus, 1973-1980

Dayton, 1971-1976

Oklahoma, 1971-1973

Oregon, 1971-1975

Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, 1973-1975

Philadelphia, 1971-1976

Miscellaneous chapters

Rhode Island, 1971-1975

South Carolina, 1973-1976

South Dakota, 1972

Texas, 1973-1976

Utah, 1975

Vermont, 1973-1975

Virginia, 1971-1973

Washington, 1971-1978

Washington, D.C., 1970-1977

West Virginia, 1971-1977

Wisconsin

Miscellaneous chapters, 1973

Madison

Milwaukee, 1970-1974

United Kingdom, 1973-1976

Miscellaneous news clippings about chapters, 1971-1977

Series: Subject Files

Advertising, 1969-1972

Africa, 1974-1975

Agent Orange

General information

Advocacy groups

Case

General

Attorney correspondence

Court documents

Class assistance program

Reference

Clippings

General

Australia

VVAW

Wisconsin

Articles regarding scientific and medical studies

“Review of Scientific Literature,” 1990
Note: Co-sponsored by VVAW.

Government and military studies

North Vietnamese study, 1988

Veteran specific studies

Cassette recording of Merriam Doucet-Schoenfeld, a Canadian researcher, regarding effects of Agent Orange on vets and their families, 1978

Settlement

VVAW

Activities

Special publications

Vietnam Veterans conference on Agent Orange, 1981

“Alienation among Vietnam Veterans,” paper by John C. Pollock, 1973

American Deserters Committee, 1973-1975

American Friends Service Committee, 1970-1971

American Legion, 1976

American Veterans for Peace, 1967-1970

American Veterans Movement, 1974

Amnesty

General, 1973-1976

Americans for Amnesty, 1973-1974

Campaign for Amnesty, 1973

National Conference on Amnesty, 1973

National Council of Churches, 1972-1975

NCUUA amnesty conference, 1974

Paper file

Cassette recording of September 23, 1974 press conference, and interview of Darryl Adams of VVAW regarding amnesty for Canadian exiles

War Resisters League, 1972-1973

Amex magazine, 1973-1975

Angola Solidarity Committee, 1975

Anniversaries of VVAW, 1987-1997

Anti-North Vietnam propaganda

Armed Forces Days, 1975, undated

Australia

Paper files

Bob Gibson's recorded memoranda about his Agent Orange work, documents sent to VVAW, and personal matters

1981 June 8

1981 December 7

Australian Communist Party

Barry, Jan, review of No Victory Parades, circa 1971

Black Panther Party, 1973-1974

Bowling Green Films, 1971

Braden, Carl and Anne, 1974-1975

CAMP (Chicago Area Military Project)
Note: See also NOSCOM-Chicago.

Enlisted men's military history

Correspondence

Drafts, 1973

Notes

CAMP literature

Canada, 1974

Casualty lists, Lebanon and Grenada, 1983

Cease fire project, 1978

Center for Constitutional Rights, 1973-1974

Center for Veterans Rights, 1980

Central Ohio Military and Veterans Organizing Project, 1974-1975

Chapter letters (from VVAW) and chapter organizing material

Charleston (South Carolina) G.I. Office, 1973

Clemency program information

Clergy and Laity Concerned

Clippings

1971 January-July, Clipping service subscription

1974, Photocopied scrapbook

1975-1982, Miscellaneous clippings

1971 May-June, Boston and Lexington newspapers

1971 July 4, Kansas City, Missouri

1971-1973, Chicago newspapers

Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community, 1973

Communist Party of the USA, 1973-1975

Communist League, 1974-1975

Congress, 1969-1982

Conscientious objectors, 1973, undated

Coordinator lists, 1970-1972

Coordinator memoranda, 1968-1972

Cortright, David (paper), 1972

Counter recruitment, 1974

Courts martial

Danish Vietnam Committee, 1974-1975

Davis, Bill, personal file, 1982-1983

Demilitarized Zone, 1976

Democratic National Conventions, 1968, 1972

Demonstration guidelines

Dewey Canyon III, 1971

General information

Participants' questionnaire responses

Press conference

Transcript of court proceedings

Dewey Canyon IV (first), 1974, “Where's My Apple Pie?”, a recording by Joan Baez to support the action
Note: Also Disc 154A/2.

Dewey Canyon IV (second), 1982

Paper file

Footage of pre-demonstration concert and instructions

Different Sons (film), 1971

Discharge Upgrade Project (DUP)

General, 1973-1974

Dyson, Steve

Lawyers Military Defense Committee, 1973-1974

Manual

National office of VVAW, 1975-1976

Old cases, incomplete

Veterans Services Association, 1975

Washington University project, 1973

Draft resistance, 1983

Drug addiction

Exiles, interviews of, 1974

Fight-Back (Germany), 1973-1974

Films

Fire Base Pace transcript

First Casualty, 1971

Florida

Free clinics (Mike Oliver)

Freund, Michael, survey research paper, 1974

Fund raising projects

G.I. Alliance, Atlanta exploratory conference

G.I. Bill and educational benefits, 1970-1971

G.I. conference, Louisville, 1971

G.I. conference, Williams Bay, 1971

G.I. conference (VVAW), 1974

Background literature

Correspondence

Flyers

Planning

Proposals and agenda

Reports

Reports and notes

Registration cards

G.I. conference, 1978

G.I. News, correspondence, 1975

G.I. movement, general, 1973

G.I. Project (VVAW)

Questionnaire form

Active duty cases, 1970-1971

Against the Wall

Beaufort, South Carolina, 1974

Camp Lejeune (Norm Haas), 1975-1976

Fort Hood, 1975-1976

Fort Lewis, 1972-1974

German G.I. groups and Rita Act

Guam, 1974

Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 1968-1971

Highway 13, 1974-1975

Illinois, 1974

Iwakuni, Japan, 1974-1975

Naha prison, Japan, 1973-1974

Yokosuka, Japan, 1974-1975

Korea, 1974-1975

London, 1974

New England, 1973-1974

New Jersey, 1974

New York APO, 1974-1975

New York FPO

San Francisco, APO and FPO (ships and bases), 1974-1975

Texas

USS America

USS Constellation

USS Coral Sea

USS Duluth, 1973

USS John F. Kennedy

USS Kitty Hawk

USS Little Rock, 1974

USS Long Beach

USS Midway, 1972-1974

USS Worden (Chris Heilman)

United States, miscellaneous G.I.s

General Motors, Detroit, 1972

Gonzalez, Julio (Illinois agent for Agent Orange), 1982-1983

Grossman, Steve, amnesty tour, 1974

Guardian, 1975-1979

Gulf War

Guyana, 1975

Hanoi trips, 1971-1972, 1986

“Help Unsell the War” campaign, 1971

Hubbard, Al, speaking engagements and remarks, 1971

Inauguration demonstration, 1973

Indochina Peace Campaign, 1973-1974

Indochina Solidarity Committee, 1973-1975

Iranian Students Association in the United States, 1973-1975

Ireland (Sinn Fein), 1974-1975

Italy (Servizio Traduzioni), 1974-1975

July 4th demonstrations

, 1974 (Amnesty/Bonus)

General

Washington, D.C. office file

, 1976 (“Rich off our Backs”)

Kampuchea (Cambodia)

National United Front (FUNK), 1973-1975

Royal Government of National Union (GRUNC), 1973-1975

Kent State demonstration, 1978

Kennedy, Joe (New York Assembly candidate), 1970

Kerry, John

General, 1971

Clippings

New Soldier

Kim Phoc tour, 1989

Korea, 1973-1975

Laird, Melvin, litigation, 1972

Lawyers Military Defense Committee, 1971-1974

League Against Imperialism (West Germany), 1974

Legislative office (Rusty Lindley), Washington, D.C., 1971-1974

Liberated Barracks (Hawaii), 1974-1975

Lists

Chapters

Mailing lists

Membership printout, 1972 (about 15,700 members)

Alphabetical list

Zip code/State lists

Peace groups

Long Island Pre-college summer program, 1971

Mayor's Office for Veterans Action (New York City), 1973-1974

Memorial Days events

Military analysis information

Military counseling information

Military Justice Task Force report, 1972
Note: Incomplete.

Military regulations

Miners strike, 1978

NOSCAM (National Office Service-Peoples' Counseling and Materials)

National office files about NOSCAM

Correspondence, 1973-1974

Lists

Files transferred from Dayton office

Alphabetical correspondence, B-Z

Exiles correspondence, 1973-1974

Fort Leavenworth, 1973-1975

Koza, Okinawa

North Carolina

USS Kennedy

NOSCAM-Chicago

Miscellaneous correspondence

Internal matters

G.I. correspondence

American Friends Service Committee, St. Louis, 1972-1973

Bay Area Military Law Panel, 1971-1972

Black Military Resistance League

Black Servicemen's Caucus, San Diego, 1972

Bolling Air Force Base, 1972-1974

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)

Atlanta Region

Western Region

California

Camp Allen Case (Jeffrey Allison), 1972-1973

Camp Lejeune, 1971-1973

Center for Servicemen's Rights (San Diego), 1971-1974

Charleston, South Carolina, 1974, undated

Chicago VVAW chapter, 1974

Cole, Chip

Columbia (South Carolina) Military Draft Information Center, 1972-1973

Concerned Military (San Diego), 1972-1973

Concerned Military (Puget Sound), 1971

Cortright, David, 1972-1975

Covered Wagon, Mountain Home Air Force Base, 1971-1972

DMZ Counseling, San Francisco, 1972-1973

Drydock (Long Beach), 1973-1974

Fight Back (Germany), 1972-1974

Florida, 1974-1975

Fort Benning, 1972

Fort Bragg, 1971-1974

Fort Dix, 1972

Fort Gordon, 1971-1972

Fort Lewis, 1970-1971

Fort Lewis-McCord

Fort Ord (Native American Free University), 1973

Fort Riley, 1972-1973

Forward (Germany), 1973-1974

G.I. Project Alliance (Southern California), 1973-1974

Home Front Bookstore (Santa Barbara), 1973-1974

Homestead Air Force Base, 1973-1975

Iowa

Kansas

Kansas City, 1971-1972

Kirtland Air Force Base, 1972-1973

Lawyers Military Defense Committee (Washington, D.C.), 1973-1974

Loring Air Force Base, 1971-1973

Lowry Air Force Base, 1972-1973

Manhattan, Kansas, 1972

Norfolk Defense Committee (Tidewater), 1973-1975

Norfolk G.I. Office

Offutt Air Force Base, 1972-1973

Ohio

Omaha Draft Military Information Center, 1972-1973

Oregon, 1971-1974

Prescott, Jerry (drug addiction program), 1970-1971

Puerto Rico, 1972-1974

Red Door, 1973

Rocky Mountain Military Project, 1972-1973

Support Our Soldiers (San Diego), 1971-1974

San Diego, 1971-1972

Travis Air Force Base, 1972

Up Against the Bulkhead, 1971-1972

USS Constellation, 1971

Wisconsin, 1972-1975

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 1973-1974

National Association of Concerned Veterans, 1974-1975

National Guard and Reserves organizing, 1970-1975

National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People, 1974-1975

National Lawyers Guild, Military Justice Office, 1974-1975

National Peace Action Coalition, 1970-1971

National Planning Conference on the Emotional Needs of Vietnam Era Veterans, 1973

National Political Defense Committee (of VVAW)

General, 1974

Manual

Workshop, 1974

Press releases for Gainesville 8

Netherlands (Bond voor Dienstplichtigen), 1974-1975

New members, 1974-1975

New York Moratorium Committee

Nicaragua, 1985

October League, 1974-1975

Office miscellany, 1970-1971

Ohio newsreel, 1973-1974

Operation County Fair, 1973-1974

Folders I-II

Folder III

Operation Donovan

Operation Last Patrol (to Republican Convention), 1972

General file

Paper by Mark Harmon

Operation Peace on Earth, 1971

Operation Rapid American Withdrawal (RAW), 1970

General papers

Participant questionnaires

Organizational planning

Organizational split, 1974-1975

National office file

Buffalo chapter

California

St. Louis

Other chapters

Organizers manual, undated

“Other organizations,” 1968-1971

POWs/MIAs, 1970-1973

Pacific Counseling Service, 1972-1974

Paris Peace Assembly on Vietnam, 1972

Paris Peace Talks, 1972

VVAW publicity

Journals

People's Blockade, 1972

Permits, 1971

Poems and stories, undated

Policy statements

Political campaigns, 1969-1971

Political education

Post-Vietnam Syndrome (later Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD)

Reference material, circa 1974

Chaim F. Shatan, writings and reports, 1972-1978

Postal workers strike, 1978

Political prisoners defense cases

General, 1972-1975, 1981

ACLU

National Prison Project, 1973-1975

Behavior modification study, 1974

Armstrong, Karleton, 1973

Attica Brothers legal defense committee, 1973-1974

Atlanta Federal Prison, 1974-1976

Behavior modification information

Bishop, Cameron, 1975

“Books for Prisoners,” 1973-1974

Bucklin, Richard, 1973

Camp Allen (Jeffrey Allison), 1973

Chenoweth, Pat, 1973

Church of the New Song, 1974-1975

Cullen, Michael (Milwaukee), 1973

De Mau Mau Defense Committee, 1973

Ervin, Lorenzo Komboa, 1976

Felde, Wayne

Fort Wadsworth Army Band case, 1970

Gainesville 8, 1973

Press releases, statements, and miscellany

Flyers and publications

Trial notes

Clipping scrapbooks, 1971-1974
Physical Description: Photocopy 

Hardy, Jackie, 1975

Hood, Bob, 1974

Imprisoned Citizens Union, 1972

Incarcerated Veterans Assistance (Lorton, Virginia), 1975

Jackson, James, 1970

Jenkins, Clarence, 1974-1975

Kessler, Stephen, 1974

Lawton, Gary (Riverside prisoners case), 1974

Leach, Ashby, 1976-1977

Paper file

Recorded talk and interview of Leach, perhaps for publication, 1977

Leavenworth Brothers

Correspondence, 1973-1975

Press material and clippings

Bulletins

Lebanon, Ohio, prison incident report by Armand Austan, circa 1973

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Prison, 1974-1975

Lifers, Inc. (Missouri State Prison), 1975-1976

Little, Malcolm, 1974-1975

Louisiana State Prison (Veterans Incarcerated)

Lyons, Paul T., 1974-1975

McGee (or Magee), Ruchell, sedition case, 1973-1976

Marion Federal Prison, 1974-1976

National Lawyers Guild, Midnight Special Collective, 1973-1975

National Prisoners Association, 1975

North East Prisoners Association, 1974-1976

Ohio Prisoners Labor Association, 1973

Oklahoma State Prison

Sanchez, Eddie, 1974-1975

Smit, Tom, 1974

Smith, Billy Dean, 1974, undated

Smith, Melvin, 1972-1974

Correspondence

Clippings

Miscellany

Publicity

Smith's letters

Sostre, Martin, 1973

Soto, Carlos, 1975

Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, 1974-1975

Terre Haute Federal Prison, 1973-1975

United Prisoners Union, 1973

United States Bureau of Prisons, 1973

Veterans Incarcerated Service Program, 1975-1977

Williams, Bobby, 1974-1975

Wilson, Robert H., 1974-1975

Wood, Jearl, 1981-1982

Wounded Knee Defense Committee, 1973-1974

Yancy, John, 1975

Puerto Rican Solidarity Day, 1974

Rambo (film), 1985

Recon, 1974

Republican Convention, 1972-1973

Resignations, 1970-1971

Rest of the News, 1974

Revolutionary Communist Party

Revolutionary Student Brigade, 1975

Revolutionary Union (RU), 1973-1975

Reynolds, Al, 1974

Safe Return, 1972-1974

South Vietnamese consulate

San Diego Convention Coalition, 1972

Sojourner Truth Organization

Songs and poetry

Speakers, 1970-1971

“Stand Up and Be Counted” ad questionnaires, 1967

Statistics, miscellaneous

Stockholm Conference on Crime in Indochina, 1972

Sweden, North Vietnamese support, 1972-1975

Thanksgiving, 1971

Third World Caucus

Tupelo, Mississippi, 1978

USS Haddock, 1975

Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee

Unidentified and undated miscellany

Union of Vietnamese in the United States, 1973-1974

Unita Festival (Rome), 1972

United Farm Workers, 1972-1973

United Front Press, 1974-1975

United Nations petition, 1972

United States-China Peoples Friendship Association, 1975-1977

United States Servicemen's Fund, 1970

United We Stand, 1973-1974

Up From Exile, 1973

Vancouver American Exiles Committee, 1973-1975

Veterans

Illinois, 1982-1985

Iowa, 1983

Michigan

Ohio

Veterans action centers, 1972

Veterans Action Group, 1971

Veterans Administration

General

Hospitals and medical benefits

Cassette recordings about the Detroit Veterans Administration Hospital, 1977

Interview with Tim Wells, an employee who was fired and his dismissal, perhaps for a VVAW defense case

Interview with Mrs. Walker about her brother who died from mistreatment at Allen Park hospital

Veterans conference

Veterans Day events, 1970-1978

Veterans for Peace, 1970

Veterans resource lists

Veterans service projects, miscellaneous groups

Veterans Service Center, 1974

Vietnam

General

North Vietnam, 1972-1975

Paper file

Recorded meeting with representatives of the North Vietnamese army, regarding friendship, post-war Vietnam, etc., circa 1975 August-September

South Vietnam prisoners, 1973

Vietnam Peace Parade, 1970

Vietnam Revisited (art exhibit), 1981

Vietnam veterans

General

Minnesota conference, 1979

Vietnam Veterans against the War-Anti-Imperialist, undated

Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, 1971

Vietnam Veterans for McCarthy, 1968

“Vietnam Veterans Voice”

WTTW Radio, Veterans call-in program, 1981

War memorials, 1985, undated

Winter Soldier (film), 1971-1973

Winter Soldier film robbery, 1973

Winter Soldier Investigation

Citizens Commission of Inquiry, 1971

Clippings

Correspondence, 1970-1971

Financial records

General information

Planning, 1971

Publicity

Research and contacts

Transcripts

Folders 1-11

Folders 12-14

Testimony used

Testimony summaries

Testimony not used

Deleted pages

Local Winter Soldier inquiries

Paper file

Recorded testimony of ten Boston soldiers, 1971 October 7-9
Note: Also Disc 154/1.

Winter Soldier newspaper distribution, 1971

Wisdom of the Afflicted, play by Peter Mahoney

Workshop on military counseling of the U.S. Committee on Military Counseling in which VVAW members participated
Note: No year identified, but post-1975.

March 27

April 2

April 16

April 23

World Conference on Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, 1972-1975

Paper files

Recorded statement of Bill Davis enroute to 1975 conference on nuclear issues, also statements in solidarity with PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)

World Peace Conference (Moscow), 1973

World Religionists Assembly for Peace and Justice, 1972

ZERO, 1974-1975

Series: Chapter Records

Clarence Fitch Chapter (previously Brooklyn/Northern New Jersey)

By-laws revision, 1991; objectives

Minutes/draft copies of Monthly Report newsletter, 1999-2002

Meeting notes, 1995-2002, undated

Correspondence

1972-2003

2004-2006, undated

DMZ newsletter paste-up pages

E-mails, 1993-2006, undated

FSLN House in La Esperanza, Niracagua

Financial information, 1993-1995

Fitch documentary and memorial (Another Brother)

Flyers

Regular size

Large size

Fourth of July events

Gillen, Michael, photography exhibit, 1995

Gulf War, 1990

Haiti, 1991

“Interview a Vet” contest, 1988

Iraq War

JROTC organizing and youth counseling, 1985, 1995

Kerry, John, e-mails about, 2003-2004

Membership letters, 1990-1992

Memorabilia

Camouflage-style banner, circa 1980s

Frisbee for 25th anniversary in New York City, 1992

Memorial Day events

Miscellany

Monthly essays, 1989-1992, undated

National Veterans Legal Services Project

Nicaragua, 1986

Panama fact-finding delegation, 1989

Peace convoy, 1988

Pietri, Pedro, 2004

Platoon (film) reaction, 1989

Sheldon Ramsdell Memorial, 1996

Reconciliation campaign, 1993-1994

Resolutions, miscellaneous

Sandow, Laurie, resignation, 1988

School of the Americas, 1994-1995

September 11 response, 2001

Speak Out for Peace and Justice, 1988

Tappan Zee Brigade meeting notices, 2003-2006

Veterans Days, 1971-2000

Veterans for Peace March, 2006

Veterans Peace Coalition, meeting notices, 2002-2004

Vieques, 1999-2001

Vietnam Veterans against the War (national)

Minutes, 1998-2003

Anniversaries, 1992-2002

“Core” mailing list issues, 1998

History

Miscellany

National lists

Winter Soldier Investigation, New York, 1972

Information files

Agent Orange

Articles

Dioxin-New York Commission report, 1982

Miscellaneous mailings

Prisoners

Salcedo, Sylvester

Vietnam Friendship Village project, 1992

Madison, Wisconsin Chapter records

Articles of incorporation, 1985

Correspondence

Incoming, 1979-1988, 1992

Outgoing, 1979-1989

Mailings received

Subject files

Agent Orange

Paper file, 1979-1986

WHA interview of Sukie Wachtendonk about Agent Orange litigation and her family's health, 1989 May 29

WNTR interview with Rick Odell and Sukie Wachtendonk about her family's health and the Agent Orange litigation, 1989 July 11

War Shadows, a film by Jody Eisemann, 1979

Audio-visual products, 1985-1988

Benefits

Camp McCoy 3, 1972-1973

Central America, 1985-1986

Clippings

Dane County Agent Orange Committee, 1980

Draft resistance, 1980-1986

Education grant application, 1984-1987

Federal legislation

Kroll, Dennis

Madison Vets for Peace, 1984-1986

Membership list, 1986

Memorial Day events, 1979, 1982

Military recruiting in schools, 1984-1985

Newsletter

Nicaragua film project, circa 1987

Mike Terry letter

Footage of VVAW tour of Nicaragua to promote a proposed documentary

Operation Dewey Canyon IV, 1982

Operation Triad, 1980

Pesticides, Department of Agriculture rule, 1979-1981

Pesticide documentaries, 1979-1980

Pesticide use in Madison, 1980-1989

A Public Affair, WORT talk by Dennis Kroll and D. McQuade about Platoon, 1987 January 22

Progress reports to national office, 1979-1983

Radio program, 1981

Veterans Administration, 1978-1985

Veterans Day events

Paper file, 1983-1991

A Public Affair, WORT coverage of the 1986 Capitol event and speech by Dennis Kroll

Promotional interview for the 1986 event on WORT, music by Jim Walktendonk and Rick Duvall

A Public Affair, WORT coverage of the 1989 ceremony, speeches by Sukie Wachtendonk and VVAW head Barry Romo, music by Muriel Hogan and Jim Walktendonk

Vets House-Agent Orange outreach project, 1981-1984

Vietnam Veterans Civic Council of Wisconsin, 1983-1985

Wachtendonk, Jim and Sukie
Use Restrictions: Jim Walktendonk (the name Jim Wachtendonk used for his professional recordings) retains rights to all of the music composed and performed by him.

Family information

Agent Orange questionnaire

Commercial recordings

Edges, 1997

Gemini & I, 1991

Incoming, 1985

On the Mend, 1988

R & R, 1994

Red White and Blind, 1989

War toys

Paper file, 1985-1986

Comments about war toys by the Wachtendonks on a WHA program; Jim sings a song by Dennis Kroll

Wisconsin Coalition Against Pesticides, 1981

Wisconsin legislation, 1979-1984

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chapter

Organizational and general information

Correspondence, 1973-1992, undated

Subject files

Agent Orange

Australia, 1983-1984

Citizen exposure, 1980-1984

Class action suit, 1979-1988, undated

Clippings (Wisconsin)

Contact cards

General information

Lindquist notes about Veterans Administration herbicide committee, 1981

Milwaukee, 1979-1982

Dossier

Minnesota

National Veterans Task Force, 1980

General

Petitions, Milwaukee

Settlement comments

Conference, 1981

New Jersey, 1983-1985

Wisconsin

General, 1981

Information Project, 1979-1982

Legislation, 1971-1991

Other states legislation, 1980

Amnesty

Armstrong, Karleton, 1973

Atomic Veterans, 1981

Booth Street party and court case, 1976

Clippings

CARD (Committee against Registration and the Draft), 1983

Cooperatives, 1974

Dewey Canyon III

Dewey Canyon 20th anniversary, 1991

Discharge Upgrade Project (DUP), 1973-1974

Dow boycott

Draft, 1984

Fundraising, 1985-1990

Gainesville 8, 1973

Gulf War correspondence, 1990

Hmong in Wisconsin

July 4, 1974

Kemp, Don G. case, 1973-1974

Kessler, Mark case, 1977-1978

Lindquist, John, speeches and articles

Mailings/phone lists

Mass mailings (VVAW Milwaukee)

Membership dues notebook, 1978-1983

Mendoza, Ray case

Military families support network, 1990-1991

Milwaukee miscellaneous, 1974

Milwaukee Association of Black Veterans, 1981

Milwaukee-Central America solidarity, 1981-1982

Miscellany

Mr. Man competition

Newsletter and fragments, 1972-1990

Notes

Notes on national meetings

Operation Last Patrol, 1972

POWs, 1973

Undated material

Pesticide exposure in Wisconsin, 1980-1987

Prisoner rights, 1975-1977

Reports

General

Miles, Mary Ellen, 1972-1974

Interviews with Milwaukee FBI informants about recruitment, motivation, circa 1975

Bob Kecharski

Informant “Pam”

Informants “Lil” and “Cobra”

Songs, poems, and lyrics

Speeches, 1975-1981

Street petition

Veterans Advisory Committee, 1982

Veterans Affairs, 1973-1982

Veterans Affairs (Wisconsin Department), 1980-1981

Veterans Day

Vets House, 1980-1981

Unity Day, 1991

Vet Center clients, 1980

Vietnam War Memorial, 1982-1985

Vietnam War

Vietnamese film project, 1989

Vietnam Veterans of America, 1983

Winter Soldier Investigation, 1990

Wisconsin Agent Orange Seminar, 1991

Wood Veterans Hospital, 1979-1981

Zien, Dave, 1982

Steve Hawkins FBI Files

Report to VVAW, 1973

Research

Litigation

Worksheets

Correspondence, 1976-1983

CIA file

Medical records

Office of Special Investigations

Taxes

Records, 1973-1975

Copenhagen Conference

Defensive Investigative Service

FBI File

Volumes 1-2

Volumes 3-13

Series: Visual Materials

Photographs
Use Restrictions: Use of the photography by Marco Ugolini requires his permission.

Administrative and Policy Records

Publications, Calendars (VVAW) photographs

Local files in the National Office

Local Chapters

Colorado and Illinois

Japan

Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania

Subject files

Davis, Bill

G.I. Project (VVAW)

Japan

USS Coral Seas

Grossman, Steve, Amnesty tour

Inauguration demonstration

Kent State

Kerry, John

Liberated Barracks (Hawaii)

NOSCAM-Chicago, G.I. Correspondence, Norfolk

Prisoners and Political defense cases: Camp Allen, Gainesville 8, Robert Hood

Unita Festival (Rome)

Chapter Records

Clarence Fitch Chapter

Events, demonstrations, etc.

FSLN

Speak Out for Peace and Justice, 1988

Madison, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Miscellaneous

American Indian Movement

Berlin Boys

Demonstrations, unidentified

Iraq War protest, 2003 February 15

People's Peace Treaty [Canada, 1970]

Publicity composite, probably for VVAW

Soldiers

Unidentified

In Vietnam?

Transparencies

Local Chapters in the National Office-New Jersey

Miscellaneous-Vietnam?

Negatives

Subject files-Prisoners and Political defense cases

Leach, Ashby

Leavenworth Brothers

Chapter Records-Clarence Fitch Chapter

Artwork

Local files in the National Office, Chicago newsletter

Miscellaneous