Vietnam War Collection
Scope and Contents
This is an arbitrary collection of accessions created in June 2014 to bring together interviews that deal with the Vietnam War. There are 65 series in NAFOH that deal with the Vietnam War, but only five series that belong soley to this collection.
Dates
- Event: 1961-1975
Conditions Governing Access
For digitized items free from access restrictions, we are working to upload this material (pdfs, mp3s, jpgs) for public access, but it is an ongoing project. If you don’t find what you are looking for here, contact Special Collections (um.library.spc@maine.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on material.
Extent
5 items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
NA2396 Charles “Chick” Rauch, interviewed by Davida Kellog, March 8, 1991, UMaine, Orono, Maine. RADM Rauch USN Ret., who is Vice President for Finace at UMaine, talks about his beginnings with the Navy (graduated in 1947); Admiral Zumwalt; working in the System Analysis Division; Vietnam; being the Senior Naval Advisor; Admiral Chon, head of the Vietnamese Navy; River Patrol Boats (Swift Boats); Paul Yost, Commandant of the Coast Guard, Vietnamese fisherman culture; Vietnamese diet; Tran Hung Dao Society; Vietnamese culture; Elmo Jr.
Text: 28 pp. transcript
NA2471 Donat Conrad, interviewed by James W. Wilson, Jr., April 6, 1997. Also included: Wilson’s paper relating to the 1960s and 1970s and the Vietnam War
Text: 18 pp. paper and transcript
Audio: C1551 (not digitized)
NA2472 Francis P. Kulle, interviewed by James W. Wilson, Jr., April 6, 1997. Kulle talks about his involvement during the Vietnam War and protest eras.
Text: 5 pp. transcript
Audio: C1552, C1553 (not digitized)
NA2825 Lieutenant Alan Stormann, interviewed by Kimberly A Hinton for HTY 210 taught by Pauleena MacDougall, April 23, 2002. Paper titled “Life in Maine During The Vietnam War.” Stormann talks about Old Town, Maine, before the War; Stromann’s military service; impact of war on the region.
Text: 6 pp. research paper
Recording: mfc_na2825_c2004_01 26 minutes
NA3652 Earl J. Robishaw, interviewed by Keith Ludden, Cushing, Maine, April 18th, 2009. Robishaw talks about his service in the U. S. Army in Korea and Vietnam, as part of the Veterans History Project, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center.
Text: biographical data form, transcription in progress, transcriptions time and subject notations
Recording: CD: 1 hour 18 minutes 4 seconds
Existence and Location of Originals
Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.
Materials Specific Details
Audio files are the primary source material. Transcriptions are the transcriber's best effort to convert audio to text, but should be considered secondary to the audio.
- Folklore Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oral histories Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to Vietnam War Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Thomas Libby
- Date
- May 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English.
Repository Details
Part of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207.581.1686
