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Re: Vietnam Collections
I'm almost afraid to bring it up, but the thirty year mark for the "Kent
State/Ohio National Guard" incident is tomorrow--May 4 (1970). I attended Kent
State ten years later in 1980 and while older/graduate students took the day
seriously, freshmen thought the memorial day holiday was for partying.
Lest I be charged with "off topic-ness" let me mention that the May 4 archives
are at Kent State; the URL is http://www.library.kent.edu/speccoll/
A number of the finding aids are available on the 'net and some portions of the
collections are digitised. It's an impressive site, even though I don't care
for frames. And yes, I've spent a fair amount of time reviewing the site and it
contains opinions both positive and negative.
Holly Hodges
Linda Mahoney wrote:
> David Horowitz at Portland State University's
> History Dept. is also well versed in the Vietnam era and he may be able to
> point you in the right direction regarding repositories of info on this
> topic. PSU was also a site of student unrest. While TA-ing for his class I
> ran a film on the protests that took place on the Park Blocks at PSU.
>
> Linda Schreiner-Mahoney, MA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen M Delaney
> [mailto:kdelaney@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:43 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Vietnam Collections
>
> Lydia Fish, in the Anthropology Dept. at
> State University College at
> Buffalo (New York) is collecting Vietnam War
> Folk Songs and related oral
> histories. Last Friday she was interviewed
> on NPR (4/28/00) about the
> project.
>
> Her institution was misidentified as Buffalo
> State University in the
> piece, resulting in a few phone calls here
> to University at Buffalo (UB).
>
> UB was the site of "student unrest" related
> to the Vietnam War back to
> 1965. By Spring of 1970, the protests
> escalated to include police presence
> on campus with outbreaks of violence that
> resulted in what the media
> termed a "police assault" on the Student
> Union. Twenty-two students and
> five police officers ended up in the
> infirmary with injuries. Later that
> Spring, more protests included a
> demonstration by 45 faculty members
> (resulting in their arrests). By May the
> Cambodian incursion led to more
> demonstrations and confrontations with
> shots reported fired in on a
> campus heavily surrounded by a residential
> community.
>
> The records related to the "student unrest"
> period are oft requested
> documents by researchers and the media.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kathleen M. DeLaney, MA, MLS
> Project Archivist
> University Archives
> 420 Capen Hall
> University at Buffalo
> e-mail: kdelaney@acsu.buffalo.edu
> tel: 716-645-2916
> fax: 716-645-3714
>
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, STEVEN P. FISHER wrote:
>
> > I thought it might be productive to
> expand this thread into a dialogue
> > relating to what we do. Who is collecting
> Vietnam material? At the
> > University of Denver we are now collecting
> material relating to civilian
> > women who served in Vietnam. A group known
> as the Circle of Sisters has
> > been depositing materials with us. Talk
> about unsung heroes ...
> >
> > Anyone else want to share what they are
> collecting in this area?
> >
> > Steve Fisher
> > University of Denver
> >
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