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Neil Sheehan Papers

A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress


Prepared by Nan Thompson Ernst with the assistance of John R. Monagle and Thelma M. Queen

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Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

2009

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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2009

Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009054


Table of Contents

Collection Summary

Selected Search Terms

Personal Names

Organizations

Subjects

Locations

Related Names

Occupations

Administrative Information

Provenance:

Processing History:

Additional Guides:

Transfers:

Copyright Status:

Access and Restrictions:

Security Classified Documents:

Preferred Citation:

Biographical Notes

Neil Sheehan

John Paul Vann

Scope and Content Note

Organization of the Papers

Container List

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Bright Shining Lie, 1963-1993

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Research File, circa 1920-1991

John Paul Vann, circa 1920-1984
Correspondence, circa 1950-1984
Family and Personal Papers, circa 1920-1983
Military Service, 1942-1964
Civilian Activities, 1961-1971
State Department, Agency for International Development, Vietnam, 1964-1984
Subject File, 1964-1984
Individuals, 1957-1991
Vietnam, 1953-1990
Subject File, 1950-1985

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Interviews and Notes, 1972-1987

Notebooks, 1972-1987
Tape Summaries, 1973-1975

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Official Documents, 1961-1986

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Current News (Early Bird Edition), 1964-1975

Professional File: Books and Articles, 1964-1992

Professional File: New York Times, 1956-1993

Professional File: United Press International–Indochina, 1961-1964

Closed, 1937-1985

Oversize, 1962-1971

Classified, 1960-1972

Top Secret, 1961-1969

Abbreviations and Acronymns in the Collection


Collection Summary

Title: Neil Sheehan Papers
Span Dates: 1920-1993
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1960-1993)
ID No.: MSS80429
Creator: Sheehan, Neil
Extent: 110,000 items; 239 containers plus 8 classified and 1 oversize; 129 linear feet
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Author and journalist.Correspondence, drafts of writings, notes, research material, interview transcripts, and other papers relating to Sheehan's writings concerning the Vietnam War, especially his books, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) and After the War Was Over: Hanoi and Saigon (1992), and to publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Personal Names

Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989--Correspondence.
Colby, William Egan, 1920---Correspondence.
Ellsberg, Daniel--Correspondence.
Halberstam, David--Correspondence.
Harkins, Paul D. (Paul Donal), 1904---Correspondence.
Huỳnh, Văn Cao--Correspondence.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923---Correspondence.
Komer, R. W.--Correspondence.
Krulak, Victor H.--Correspondence.
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1908-1987--Correspondence.
Nguyễn, Văn Thiệu, 1923-2001--Correspondence.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Correspondence.
Sheehan, Neil.
Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987--Correspondence.
Trân, Ngọc Châu--Correspondence.

Organizations

Martin Marietta Corporation.
United Press International.
United States. Agency for International Development.
United States. Army--Officers.
Vietnam (Republic). Quân lực.

Subjects

Current news; early bird edition.
Journalists--Indochina.
Journalists--Vietnam.
Journalists--Washington (D.C.)
New York times.
Pentagon Papers.
Presidents--United States--Election--1964.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Locations

Hanoi (Vietnam)--History.
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)--History.
United States--Armed Forces--Periodicals.
United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.
Vietnam--Politics and government--1945-1975.

Related Names

Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989. Joseph Alsop interview.
Braestrup, Peter. Peter Braestrup interview.
Bunker, Ellsworth, 1894- Ellsworth Bunker interview.
Christian, George, 1927- George Christian interview.
Colby, William Egan, 1920- William Egan Colby interview.
DePuy, William E. (William Eugene), 1919-1992. William E. DePuy interview.
Ellsberg, Daniel. Daniel Ellsberg interview.
Habib, Philip Charles, 1920- Philip Charles Habib interview.
Halberstam, David. David Halberstam interview.
Huỳnh, Văn Cao. Văn Cao Huỳnh interview.
Komer, R. W. R.W. Komer interview.
Krulak, Victor H. Victor H. Krulak interview.
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1908-1987. Edward Geary Lansdale interview.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985. Henry Cabot Lodge interview.
Lý, Tòng Bá. Tòng Bá Lý interview.
Ngô, Dzu. Dzu Ngô interview.
Phạm, Văn Đồng, 1906-2000. Văn Đồng Phạm interview.
Sheehan, Neil. After the war was over: Hanoi and Saigon. 1992.
Sheehan, Neil. Bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. 1988.
Trân, Ngọc Châu. Ngọc Châu Trân interview.
United States. Dept. of Defense.
Vann, John Paul. John Paul Vann papers.
Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005. William C. Westmoreland interview.
York, Robert H. (Robert Howard), 1913- Robert H. York interview.

Occupations

Authors.
Journalists.

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Neil Sheehan, author and journalist, were deposited in the Library of Congress by Sheehan between 1990 and 1994. The papers deposited before 1993 were processed as the Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection, and the John Paul Vann papers, principally in Containers 25-57, were converted to a gift in 1994. Included in the Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection is a compilation of Current News, a Defense Department publication given to the Library in 1992 as an addition to the Sheehan Papers by Peter Braestrup. Papers received in 1994 remain on deposit and have been organized as a separate series entitled Professional File.

Processing History:

The papers of Neil Sheehan were processed in 1993 and 1994. The finding aid was revised in 2009.

Additional Guides:

A description of the Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection portion of the Sheehan Papers appeared in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1990.

Transfers:

Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Some maps have been transferred to the Library's Geography and Map Division. Sound recordings of interviews have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Some photographs have been transferred to the Prints & Photographs Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Neil Sheehan Papers.

Copyright Status:

Copyright in the unpublished writings of Neil Sheehan in these papers and in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress is reserved. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for further information.

Access and Restrictions:

Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions. In addition, many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.

Security Classified Documents:

Government regulations control the use of security classified items in this collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish information concerning access to and use of classified material.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Neil Sheehan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Notes

Neil Sheehan

Date

Event

1936, Oct. 27Born, Holyoke, Mass.
1958B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1961-1962Night editor, Asian bureau, United Press International, Tokyo, Japan
1962-1964 Saigon bureau chief, United Press International, Saigon, South Vietnam
1964-1965Metropolitan desk and general assignment reporter, New York Times, New York, N.Y.
1965Indonesia correspondent, New York Times, Djakarta, Indonesia
1965-1966Vietnam correspondent, New York Times, Saigon, South Vietnam
1966-1968Defense Department correspondent, New York Times, Washington, D.C., bureau
1968White House correspondent, New York Times, Washington, D.C., bureau
1969National security affairs correspondent, New York Times, Washington, D.C., bureau
1971Pentagon Papers excerpted in the New York Times
Published The Pentagon Papers as Published in the New York Times, Based on Investigative Reporting by Neil Sheehan (Toronto and New York: Bantam Books. 677 pp.); reissued as The Pentagon Papers as Published in the New York Times (New York: Quadrangle Books. 810 pp.)
1972Published The Arnheiter Affair (New York: Random House. 304 pp.)
Began leave of absence from the New York Times to write a biography of John Paul Vann
1975Resigned from the New York Times
1988Published A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (New York: Random House. 861 pp.)
Received National Book Award
1989Awarded Pulitzer Prize
1992Published After the War Was Over: Hanoi and Saigon (New York: Random House. 131 pp.)


John Paul Vann

Date

Event

1924, July 2Born John Paul Legay, Norfolk, Va.
1939-1942Attended Ferrum Training School and Junior College, Ferrum, Va.
1942Changed name to John Paul Vann
1943Enlisted in army; assigned to Army Air Corps
1945Graduated, Navigation School, receiving rank of second lieutenant, Army Air Corps
Married Mary Jane Allen (divorced 1971)
1946Commissioned, Regular Army
Attended Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
1947Transferred to infantry
1950Supply and evacuation officer, Twenty-fifth Infantry Division, Korean War
1950-1951Commander, Ranger Company, Twenty-fifth Infantry Division, Korean War
1952-1954Attended Rutgers University Business School, New Brunswick, N.J.
Instructor, Reserve Officer Training Corps, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
1957-1958Attended Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
1958-1959Attended Army Comptrollers School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., completing M.B.A. in statistics and residency requirements for a doctorate in public administration
1962 Staff advisor, III Corps Headquarters, Saigon, South Vietnam
Senior advisor, Seventh Infantry Division, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, with headquarters in My Tho, South Vietnam
1963 Assigned to the Pentagon
Retired from the army
1963-1965Sales representative, Martin Co., a division of Martin Marietta Corp., Denver, Colo.
1965Province representative, Agency for International Development, Hau Nghia, South Vietnam
1966Manager, Revolutionary Development Cadre Project, Vung Tau pacification training center, South Vietnam
1966-1969Deputy director for field operations and director, Office of Civil Operations (OCO), Region III, South Vietnam
1969-1971Deputy, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), Region IV, South Vietnam
1971 Senior Advisor with power of command over military forces, Region II, South Vietnam
1972, June 9Died in a helicopter crash near the Montagnard hamlet of Ro Uay, South Vietnam

Scope and Content Note

The Neil Sheehan Papers span the years circa 1920-1993 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1960 to 1993. The collection is organized into two series. Material relating to Sheehan's prize-winning history, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, is organized as the Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection. Material relating to Sheehan's career as a journalist for United Press International in Asia, 1961-64, and the New York Times, 1964-1972, and as an author of other books and articles on the Vietnam War, 1964-1992, is organized in a Professional File.

The Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection includes publication records for A Bright Shining Lie , a research file, interviews and notes, official documents, and a Current News file containing issues of the Defense Department's compilation of press clippings published during the war. The arrangement reflects the organization established by Sheehan as he studied and wrote about the Vietnam War and John Paul Vann.

The biographical element of A Bright Shining Lie is based on Vann's personal papers given to Sheehan by the family. Declassified copies of documents relating to Vann were acquired by Sheehan through the Freedom of Information Act from the United States Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Vann's papers document his activities in Vietnam, his military career prior to Vietnam, his family and personal life, his civilian work for the Martin Company in Denver, and his political affiliations, especially his involvement in the 1964 presidential campaign. Vann's correspondents include Joseph Alsop, Huynh Van Cao, Tran Ngoc Chau, William Egan Colby, Daniel Ellsberg, David Halberstam, Paul D. Harkins, Henry Kissinger, Robert W. Komer, Victor H. Krulak, Edward Geary Lansdale, Richard M. Nixon, Maxwell D. Taylor, and Nguyen Van Thieu.

Papers documenting Vann's military career primarily concern his service in Vietnam as an army lieutenant colonel appointed senior advisor to the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) in the Mekong River delta. Reports and memoranda for the Ap Bac battle and Dan Tien operations in 1962-1963, along with Vann's correspondence and press accounts by Sheehan and David Halberstam, document Vann's criticism of the South Vietnamese government and armed forces and his advocacy of political reform and direct military intervention by the United States. Viewed with increasing disfavor by the American command staff, Vann retired from the army soon after completing his Vietnam tour of duty in 1963.

The war remained a central concern for Vann, and in 1965 when American combat troops were sent to fight in southeast Asia, he joined the action as a State Department pacification official. Vann's Agency for International Development records document his work with the pacification program from 1965 to 1972. Vann and his colleagues wanted to "harness" a social revolution to the United States war effort, and their proposals (see especially, "Harnessing the Revolution" in container 48), policy statements, reports, training manuals, and correspondence document the instruction given to the Vietnamese in self-defense, fighting insurgents, intelligence gathering, and suggestions for efficient representative government.

Vann's quick rise through the ranks of the pacification program was based on his grasp of military objectives and his extensive field knowledge of war developments. In 1971 he was appointed to an unprecedented civilian command of troops defending the Central Highlands against a long-awaited attack by North Vietnamese regular forces. Records for the defense of Kontum, Plieku, and other battles of the North Vietnamese army's 1972 Easter offensive are in the Vann subseries, Region II files. Supplemental documentation can be found in the Vietnam subseries under North Vietnam offensives and the Individuals subseries in files for soldiers who worked with Vann to defend the Central Highlands.

Sheehan's primary sources on the Vietnam War for A Bright Shining Lie include the Pentagon Papers and other official documents, supplemented by interviews and supporting records provided by key participants. When Sheehan was a reporter for the New York Times in 1971, he obtained copies of the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. The term "Pentagon Papers" was coined by the New York Times to describe the forty-seven volume "History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy, 1945-1967" compiled at the Pentagon upon the request of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. This multivolume work is an annotated compilation or summary of relevant government documents, most of them classified, with introductory essays by various government analysts. Sheehan's Pentagon Papers file, listed as part of the Official Documents subseries, includes photocopied portions of government documents which remain classified and thus are stored separately. His copy of volumes one and two of the House Committee on Armed Services Pentagon Papers edition, published as United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967, is annotated to mark censored passages. Notes relating to the Pentagon Papers can be found in Bright Shining Lie publication records and throughout the Research File especially under Ellsberg in the Individuals subseries and in the Subject File subseries. Publication of the Pentagon Papers by the New York Times in 1971, and subsequently by Bantam Books and Beacon Press, is documented in the second series of the collection, the Professional File.

Sheehan's Research File of papers from military and civilian personnel includes government memoranda and documents, letters, orders, command guidance, and studies dealing with Vann and the Vietnam War. Richard Ziegler gave his journal documenting the ARVN Seventh Infantry Division in 1962-1963, and Daniel Ellsberg provided Sheehan with copies of reports and position papers, as did other RAND analysts such as Charles Benoit. Papers were contributed by Tran Ngoc Chau, a Vietnamese politician who was tried for treason by the Nguyen Van Thieu government in South Vietnam. Sheehan also obtained reports from Vann's commanders and copies of documents from various archives. Fellow news correspondents, especially David Halberstam, gave Sheehan copies of interview notes. These materials, along with Sheehan's notes and clippings, are distributed by subject throughout the Research File.

While writing A Bright Shining Lie, Sheehan interviewed more than four hundred Americans, Vietnamese, and foreign news correspondents. The interviews are documented in nearly two hundred stenographic notebooks, six hundred audiocassette tapes, and typed summaries of more than one hundred interview tapes. Correspondence clarifying points raised in interviews and other supporting documentation can occasionally be found in the Research File. Among those interviewed were generals Ly Tong Ba, Huynh Van Cao, William E. DePuy, Pham Van Dong, Ngo Dzu, Victor H. Krulak, Edward Geary Lansdale, William C. Westmoreland, and Robert H. York; reporters Joseph Alsop, Peter Braestrup, and David Halberstam; White House and executive branch officials, including Ellsworth Bunker, George Christian, William Egan Colby, Philip Charles Habib, Robert W. Komer, and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr; analysts such as Daniel Ellsberg; and politicians such as Tran Ngoc Chau.

The Professional File in the collection documents Sheehan's broader career as a journalist and author. The Books and Articles subseries contains publication records and research files. Material relating to After the War Was Over includes interviews conducted in 1989 of Vietnamese who were consulted by Sheehan years earlier for A Bright Shining Lie. Sheehan's New York Times file documents his career with the newspaper. His first assignment was with the metropolitan desk, but he was soon reassigned to Indonesia where he reported on the crisis surrounding President Achmed Soekarno and the military's suppression of a communist-led uprising in 1965. Sheehan then returned to Vietnam as a war correspondent. After 1966, he covered the war from Washington. As a Pentagon and national security reporter, Sheehan was responsible for Defense Department issues in general and for the war in Vietnam from a political perspective.

The New York Times file reflects the conflict and symbiosis inherent between a democratic government and the press. It also documents the evolution of Sheehan's own stand on the Vietnam War. Sheehan's position evolved from the stance he espoused in a widely read 1966 article, "Not a Dove But No Longer a Hawk," to more thorough opposition to the war later, especially after reading and reporting on the Pentagon Papers.

The New York Times file documents aspects of the decision to publish excerpts of the Pentagon Papers and the bitter legal battle which ensued. The Books and Articles file includes publication records for the one-volume Bantam Books version, edited by Sheehan, and later reissued by Quadrangle Press. Sheehan's copy of volumes 1-3 of the Beacon Press publication of the Pentagon Papers, known as the "Senator 'Mike' Gravel" edition, is annotated to mark censored passages. The files include correspondence, memoranda, notes, speeches, and records of legal proceedings, the Justice Department investigation, press coverage, and journalism prizes.

The United Press International–Indochina subseries includes business records of the Saigon bureau but is predominately a file of Sheehan's dispatches from South Vietnam for 1962-1964. Sheehan's dispatches are in the form of telegraphic transmissions some of which are coded. As a cost-saving measure, routine news was sent by cast account; urgent stories and bulletins were sent as cables. The dispatches offer a detailed record of war reporting during the period when United States advisors, including John Paul Vann, assisted the South Vietnamese government in combating insurgents.

Vietnamese names in the collection are alphabetized by the last part of the given name. The family name is the first element, as in Ngo and Vo for Ngo Dinh Diem and Vo Nguyen Giap. Sheehan followed tradition in referring to the Vietnamese by the last part of their given names, as in Diem and Giap. His alphabetization has been preserved even though it differs from name authority standards of the Library of Congress which cite family names first.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in twelve series:


Container List

BoxContents
BOX 1-25

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Bright Shining Lie, 1963-1993

Drafts by Sheehan for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam with supporting files of correspondence, outlines, excerpts, photographs, records of sources, and working files of notes and documentation.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject.
BOX 1Book text
Drafts
First
Chapter 1, "The Funeral," 1976
Chapter 2, "The Beginning," undated
Chapter 3, "A Battle and a Resignation," undated
(2 folders)
Chapter 5, "The Boy and His Origins; The Man and His Times"
Notes, queries, and revisions, 1979-1980, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 2 (3 folders)
Text, 1977, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 3Notes on Robert Loomis's comments, 1976
Second
Chapter 1, "The Funeral," undated
Chapter 2, "The Beginning"
Notes, 1979, undated
Text, undated
Chapter 3, "Antecedents to a Confrontation"
Notes, 1978-1980, undated
Partial text, undated
Chapter 4, "The Battle of Ap Bac"
Notes, undated
Text, undated
Chapter 5, "Taking on the System"
Notes and revisions, 1977, undated
(1 folder)
BOX 4 (2 folders)
Queries, 1972-1978, undated
Text, undated
(2 folders)
Comments of Robert Loomis and Robert Lescher, 1979
Third
[Introduction], "The Funeral," 1981
Editing notes, 1986, undated
Fact checking and revisions, undated
Queries, undated
Text, undated
Book I, "Going to War"
Editing notes, 1988, undated
Queries and revisions, undated
(1 folder)
BOX 5 (1 folder)
Text, undated
(2 folders)
Book II, "Antecedents to a Confrontation"
Editing notes, 1987-1988, undated
BOX 6Fact checking, notes, and revisions, undated
Further revisions, 1982, undated
Queries, 1980, undated
Text, undated
Book III, "The Battle of Ap Bac"
Editing notes, 1986-1988, undated
Queries and revisions, undated
Text, undated
Book IV, "Taking on the System"
Editing notes, 1987-1988, undated
Fact checking, undated
Final changes, undated
Further revisions, 1982, undated
Queries, undated
Revisions, undated
Text, undated
(1 folder)
BOX 7 (1 folder)
Book V, "Antecedents to the Man"
Catalog of interviews, undated
Critiques and comments, 1982
Editing notes, 1987-1988, undated
Fact checking and revisions, undated
Further revisions, undated
(2 folders)
Notes, 1981-1982, undated
Text, undated
BOX 8Book VI, "A Second Time Around"
Critiques and comments, 1984
Editing notes, 1987, undated
Fact checking, undated
Further revisions, 1975-1983, undated
Revisions, undated
Schematics, 1983, undated
Text, undated
Book VII, "John Vann Stays"
Critiques and comments, 1986
Editing notes, 1987, undated
Fact checking, undated
Further revisions, 1984-1987
(2 folders)
BOX 9Notes, 1984-1986, undated
(2 folders)
Research tasks, undated
Text, undated
(2 folders)
Fourth (final), 1987
[Introduction], "The Funeral"
Book I, "Going to War"
BOX 10Book II, "Antecedents to a Confrontation"
Book III, "The Battle of Ap Bac"
Book IV, "Taking on the System"
Book V, "Antecedents to the Man"
Book VI, "A Second Time Around"
Book VII, "John Vann Stays"
(1 folder)
BOX 11 (1 folder)
Galleys, 1988
Author's
(6 folders)
BOX 12Master
(6 folders)
Last-minute corrections, 1988
Preliminary sections and back matter
Acknowledgments, undated
Bibliography, 1972-1988, undated
(1 folder)
BOX 13 (1 folder)
Footnotes, undated
(2 folders)
Index, 1988
(3 folders)
Interview lists, undated
Miscellaneous, 1987-1988
Readings
Legal, 1988, undated
BOX 14Military, 1987
Source notes and documents, undated
Correspondence
Disposition of John Paul Vann papers
Catalogs of papers at the United States Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1972-1974
Davis, Vincent, 1972-1978, undated
Library of Congress, 1981-1993
Military history archives, 1972-1988
Vann family and friends, 1972-1975
Editorial, 1986-1990
Freedom of information requests, 1972-1984
(2 folders)
Giap, Vo Nguyen, 1978
Marine Corps Historical Center, Washington, D.C., 1985
Miscellaneous, 1976-1988
(2 folders)
BOX 15Postpublication
General
June 1988-Mar. 1989
(8 folders)
BOX 16Apr. 1989-Dec. 1990
(9 folders)
BOX 17Jan. 1991-Apr. 1992
(3 folders)
National Book Award, 1988
(2 folders)
Pulitzer Prize, 1989
(2 folders)
Requests for
Agency for International Development (AID) personnel record, 1977
Army personnel record, 1977
Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1973-1980
BOX 18Excerpts
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 1988
New Yorker
Correspondence and notes
Editorial, 1981-1988, undated
Readers
Answered, 1988, undated
Not answered, 1988, undated
Fact checking, 1988
Newspaper clippings, 1988
Text, parts 1-4, 1988
(4 folders)
BOX 19Vietnamese language translations
Lich Su Quan Su, 1989
Quan Doi Nhan Dan, 1989
Maps, 1988
Miscellany
Book chores, 1972-1978, undated
Character lists, 1975, undated
Filing directions and queries, undated
Ideas, 1972-1976
Length, 1979-1986
Major points, 1972-1975
People to interview, undated
Queries, 1972-1976, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 20Quotes, 1972-1986, undated
Research techniques and working methods, undated
Outlines (as used in book)
Funeral and 1967-1970 period, 1973
1962-1963 period, undated
1964 period, undated
1962-1967 period, notes for alternative structures, 1976
1965-1967 period, undated
(3 folders)
1968-1970 period, undated
1971-1972 period, undated
(1 folder)
BOX 21 (1 folder)
Pentagon Papers, undated
Epilogue, undated
Schematic, 1976, undated
Source notes and documents, undated
Photographs
Correspondence and notes, 1987-1989
Negatives, undated
Prints, undated
(3 folders)
Published reproductions, undated See also Oversize
Sheehan, Neil, circa 1965-1966
Promotion, 1988
Research
Sources for interviews
1962-1963 period, 1978, undated
Anecdotes and lists, 1973, undated
BOX 22Foreign countries, undated
Germany, 1973, undated
Miscellaneous, 1968-1980, undated
United States, 1972-1974, undated
Whereabouts unknown, 1968-1972, undated
Trips
California, 1973, undated
The South, 1975
Texas, 1974-1975, undated
Vietnam, 1972
Working files
Book II, "Antecedents to a Confrontation"
American Revolution, 1980, undated
Bao Dai, 1988, undated
Communist leadership in south, undated
Denunciation of communist campaign, undated
Economic stake of United States in Southeast Asia, 1978, undated
France
Colonialism, 1987, undated
War, undated
Ho Chi Minh, 1977-1981, undated
Imperialism, undated
Indonesian independence, 1978, undated
Infiltration into South Vietnam, undated
Insurgency origins, 1976-1978, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Neocolonialism, United States, undated
Ngo Dinhs, 1972-1978, undated
BOX 23North Vietnam, American views of communism, undated
Racism, United States, 1987, undated
Strategic hamlet program, undated
Vietnam
Communist leadership, 1987, undated
Revolution, 1979, undated
Book IV, "Taking on the System"
Ap Bac battle, impact on
Americans, 1983, undated
Saigon, undated
Vietcong, 1973, undated
Bridge section, 1978-1981, undated
Buddhist crisis, undated
Civilian casualties, undated
Corruption in United States military, undated
Diem, Ngo Dinh, coup, 1971-1976, undated
Growth of Vietcong strength in 1963-1964, 1980, undated
Individuals, undated
Miscellaneous, 1980-1981, undated
(2 folders)
Statistics, undated
Strategic hamlets, 1976, undated
BOX 24Vann, John Paul
Confrontation with Paul D. Harkins, undated
Irregulars, undated
Joint Chiefs of Staff incident, 1980, undated
Pentagon briefing campaign, undated
Report of 8 Feb. 1963, undated
Retirement, undated
Spike trap incident, undated
Vietcong offensive of Nov. 1963, undated
Book V, "Antecedents to the Man," Cold War, 1982, undated
Book VI, "A Second Time Around"
Corruption, undated
Ia Drang Valley, 1965, 1982, undated
Miscellaneous notes, 1984, undated
Operation Masher, 1966
Rejection of "Harnessing the Revolution" proposal, 1983, undated
Social revolution, undated
Book VII, "John Vann Stays"
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), undated
Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), undated
Civilian casualties, 1984-1985, undated
"The Climax"
Kontum, finale, and crash, 1986, undated
Part 1, undated
Corruption, 1983
Demilitarized zone, area fighting, 1980, undated
Demoralization of United States Army, 1973-1987, undated
BOX 25North Vietnam Tet offensive (1968)
Khe Sanh, undated
Miscellaneous notes, undated
Post-offensive rationalizations, 1985
Schematics, undated
Questions for Vince Demma and others, 1976-1982, undated
Refugees, 1969, undated
War of attrition
Outlines and schematics, 1984, undated
Sheehan, Susan, memorandum on talk-through, 1984
Epilogue, 1977-1987, undated
BOX 25-107

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Research File, circa 1920-1991

BOX 25-57 John Paul Vann, circa 1920-1984
BOX 25-30 Correspondence, circa 1950-1984
Correspondence to and from Vann and occasionally to and from Sheehan concerning Vann.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject.
BOX 25Abrams, Creighton, 1971-1972, undated
Alsop, Joseph, 1967-1972
Arcement, Paul, undated
Baldwin, Hanson W., 1963-1975
Barnes, Thomas J., 1965-1984, undated
Bernard, Carl F., 1969-1972
Blazey, Frank E., 1968-1973, undated
Brady, Philip O., 1967-1976
Bricker, James W., 1962-1963
Brown, David E., 1969, undated
Buckley, Kevin, 1971-1974
Bumgardner, Everet F., 1967-1972
"B" miscellaneous, 1968-1971
BOX 26Cao, Huynh Van, 1963-1967, undated
Chau, Tran Ngoc, 1963-1980, undated
Chuong, Tran Van, 1963-1972
Clay, Frank B., 1969
Colby, William Egan, 1968-1972
Connor, John, 1964
Cunningham, Cleve, 1970
Davis, Vincent, 1963-1972
(7 folders)
BOX 27DePuy, William E., 1967
DeSola Pool, Ithiel, 1966-1969
Dunn, John M. ("Mike"), 1963-1975, undated
Dzu, Ngo, 1970-1974, undated
"D" miscellaneous, 1963-1971
Ellsberg, Daniel, 1963-1975, undated (includes memoranda of conversations)
(4 folders)
Fall, Bernard B., 1965-1967
Faust, Elmer F., 1963-1967
Forsythe, George I., 1968
Franzblau, Robert K., 1967-1971, undated
Franzblau, Samuel, 1972
Frost, Ralph E., 1965
BOX 28Gavin, James, 1967
Good, Kenneth N., 1964, 1980, undated
"G" miscellaneous, 1972
Habib, Philip Charles, 1970, undated
Halberstam, David, 1963-1972, undated
Hamlett, Barksdale, 1963
Harkins, Paul D., 1962-1963
Herbert, James A., 1966-1971
Herz, Martin F., 1970
Holbrooke, Richard C., 1967-1970, undated
Hopkins, Margaret, 1972-1977, undated
Hunter, Horace, 1971
"H" miscellaneous, 1967-1970
Jacobson, George, 1965-1979, undated
Janowski, Louis F., 1970
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1964-1974, undated
Jones, Thomas S., 1967-1972
"J" miscellaneous, 1964-1970
Kennedy, Edward M., 1968-1969
Kerwin, Walter T., 1969-1975
Kissinger, Henry, 1968-1980
Komer, Robert W., 1967-1972
"K" miscellaneous, 1970-1971
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1965-1968, undated
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1964-1979, undated
"L" miscellaneous, 1967-1971
BOX 29MacLehose, Murray, 1969-1972
McCown, Hal D., 1969-1971
McCoy, William L., 1967-1971
McGiffert, David E., 1967-1968
"M" miscellaneous, 1963-1971
Nixon, Richard M., 1968-1975, undated
"N" miscellaneous, 1970-1971
Ochs, Elmer Raymond, 1969-1976, undated
"O" miscellaneous, 1965
Palmer, Bruce, 1964-1972, undated
Porter, William J., 1969, undated
Pownall, Thomas G., 1969-1983
"P" miscellaneous, 1963-1971
Ramsey, Ralph and Nina, 1966-1971
Raulth, J. Donald, 1969-1970
Relations with
Politicians, 1964-1972
Press, 1964-1969
Vietnamese, 1962-1972, undated
Resor, Stanley, 1968-1970, undated
Rostow, Walt W., 1965-1971, undated
"R" miscellaneous, 1965-1969
Story, Edward C., 1967-1975
"S" miscellaneous, 1963-1971
Taylor, Maxwell D., 1965
Thanh, Nguyen Viet, 1970
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 1969-1970
Timmes, Charles J., 1964, undated
Torrence, James E., 1964-1972
"T" miscellaneous, 1965-1971
BOX 30Weyand, Frederick C., 1967-1969
Whitehouse, Charles S., 1971-1972, undated
Wong, Alexander C., 1967-1972, undated
"W" miscellaneous, 1967-1971
York, Robert H., 1963-1967, undated
Yorty, Samuel, 1966-1972, undated
Zorthian, Barry, 1968-1970
Unidentified, 1965-1971, undated
BOX 30-36 Family and Personal Papers, circa 1920-1983
Correspondence, legal and financial papers, photographs, school and church papers, death and funeral records, and clippings arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 30Address book, circa 1965
Adoption papers, 1942
Automobiles and motor scooters, 1964-1972
Boy Scouts of America, 1937-1939, 1982
Correspondence, 1961-1972
Death
Clippings
South Vietnamese press, 1972
United States press, 1972
Condolences from Vietnamese officials, 1972
BOX 31Eulogies, tributes, and obituaries, 1972
Funeral, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Clippings, 1972
Notes, 1972-1976, undated
Photographs, 1972
Program and miscellany, 1972
Grave site, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., 1975
Memorial services
United States, 1972
Vietnam, 1972
Order of Military Merit, Republic of Korea, 1972
Wills, 1965-1972, undated
Divorce from Mary Jane Allen Vann, 1971-1972
Education
Blair Junior High School, Norfolk, Va., circa 1938
Ferrum Training School and Junior College, Ferrum, Va.
Diplomas, 1941-1943
Miscellany, 1970-1972
Notes undated
Photographs, 1939-1943
Records, 1941-1943, undated
BOX 32Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Army Comptroller's School, 1958-1969
Miscellany, 1956-1960
Photographs, undated
Term papers, 1958-1959
Financial records
Earnings, 1965-1972
House mortgage, Littleton, Colo., 1968-1971
Life insurance, 1965-1972
Miscellany, 1962-1972
Settlement of estate, 1972-1973, undated
Taxes, 1966-1971
LeKies Memorial Church, Norfolk, Va., 1938-1944, 1978
Medical records, 1968-1971, 1977
Miscellaneous photographs
Activities and portraits, circa 1940s
Birth site and Norfolk, Va., neighborhood, 1981
BOX 33Cadorette, Dorothy Vann (sister), circa 1930-circa 1940
Children and family portraits
Prints, circa 1945-circa 1971
(3 folders)
BOX 34Transparencies, circa 1965-circa 1971
BOX 35Korea and Japan, circa 1948-circa 1950
Raby, Melvin L., album, circa 1940s
Spry, John Paul, circa 1920s-circa 1940s
Tripp, Myrtle Lee (mother), circa 1930s-circa 1950s
Tripp family, circa 1920s-circa 1940s
Vann, Aaron Frank, circa 1930s-1968
Vann, Aaron Frank, Jr., and Eugene (brothers),
circa 1940
Vann, Patricia, baby pictures, 1946
(2 folders)
Wedding and clippings, 1945
BOX 36Youth in Norfolk, Va., circa 1930s-circa 1940s
Unidentified, undated
Papers pertaining to other family members
Cadorette, Dorothy Lee Vann, 1981, undated
Schob, Olive D. Spry, 1947
Spry, John Paul, circa 1950s
Tosolini, Mollie Tripp, 1975
Tripp, Myrtle Lee, 1926-1929, 1982, undated
Tripp, William Arthur ("Buddy"), 1972, 1981
Vann, Aaron Frank, 1960-1964, undated
Vann, Aaron Frank, Jr., 1983, undated
Vann, Eugene W., undated
Personal weapon, papers concerning, undated
BOX 36-39 Military Service, 1942-1964
Vann's service records, including personnel and efficiency reports, medical and military police investigation records, photographs, promotion orders, security clearances, and teaching records. Records from the Seventh Infantry Division, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, include after-action reports, briefings, correspondence, clippings, interviews, and photographs. Interspersed in the files are notes and material composed by Sheehan, including correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 36Army Air Corps
Aviation cadet training, 1942-1943
Efficiency reports, 1946-1947
Enlisted record, 1943-1945
Photographs, 1944-1946
BOX 37Awards, medals, certificates, and commendations, 1949-1963 See also Oversize
Clippings, 1950-1959, undated
Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.,yearbook, 1958
Commissioned service record, 1945-1963
Efficiency reports, 1948-1963
Logistical Management Section, Management Branch, G4 Division, United States Army, Europe, 1957
Medical record, 1946-1963
Military police, criminal investigation department
Motorcycle theft, 1960
Statutory rape charge, 1959
BOX 38Mortar plotting board, undated
Personnel (201) file, 1943-1963
Photographs, 1948-1963
Promotion to major, 1959
Retirement, 1962-1965
Security clearances, 1952-1955
Training Center, Ft. Bliss, Tex., instructor in business administration, 1961-1962
(3 folders)
Vietnam, senior advisor, Seventh Infantry Division
Ambush of Rangers, 1962
Ap Bac battle
After-action report, 1963
Captured Vietcong after-action report, translation, 1963
BOX 39Clippings, 1963-1964
Correspondence, 1963
Briefings
Joint Chiefs of Staff, cancelled, 1963
Miscellaneous, undated
Correspondence, 1962-1963
Dan Tien operations
After-action report, 1962
Cao victory celebration in Saigon, 1962
Miscellaneous clippings, 1962
Efficiency reports, 1962-1963
Farewell message, 1963
Interview with Charles von Luttichau, 1963
Miscellaneous clippings, 1962
Personnel roster, 1962-1963
Photographs, 1962-1963, undated
Reports, 1962-1963
BOX 40 Civilian Activities, 1961-1971
Correspondence, personnel records, printed material, clippings, and records of security reviews during Vann's employment by the Martin Company, Denver, Colo., and correspondence and printed matter concerning his political activities and speaking engagements.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 40Draft [Henry Cabot] Lodge for President Committee, Colorado coordinator, 1964
International Business Machines Corp., 1961
Martin Co., Aerospace Division of Martin Marietta, Denver, Colo.
COIN aircraft proposal, 1964
Correspondence, 1962-1969
Personnel record, 1963-1971
Printed material, 1963-1964
Security clearances, 1963
Miscellaneous
Clippings, 1963-1964
Notes, circa 1964
Photographs, 1969, undated
Republicans and Independents for [Lyndon B.] Johnson, Colorado state coordinator, 1963-1964
(2 folders)
Speaking engagements, 1963-1965
BOX 41-55 State Department, Agency for International Development, Vietnam, 1964-1984
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefings, photographs, position papers, policy statements, planning guides, printed material and clippings, training manuals, and other administrative records of Vann's work as a pacification officer for AID in South Vietnam, 1965-1972. Also includes Vann's diaries and notebooks, most of which are incomplete, award certificates, personnel records, and speech transcripts. Notes and correspondence by Sheehan are interfiled with Vann's papers.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 41Assignments
Hau Nghia province
Ambush, 1965
Budgets, 1965-1966
Civilian casualties, 1965
Clippings, 1965
Correspondence and memoranda, 1965-1966
Corruption complaints, 1965
Diary, 1965
Government, 1965
Hop Tac Pacification Plan, 1965
Interviews with Vietcong defectors, 1965
Notebook, 1965
Refugees, 1965
Reports
Duc Hoa subsector weekly activities, 1965
General, with statistics, 1964-1966
Miscellaneous, 1965
BOX 42Monthly, May-Dec. 1965
(2 folders)
Pacification activities, 1965
Vietcong actions, 1964-1965
Sheehan notes, 1982, undated
United States Operations and Missions (USOM)
Administrative records, 1965
Travel records, 1965
Vietnamese documents, 1965-1966
Pacification Training Center, Vung Tau
Memoranda, 1966
Notebook-journal, 1966
Project plans and instructions, 1966
Sheehan notes on dispute, 1984, undated
BOX 43Region II
Binh Dinh campaign, 1971-1975
Clippings, 1971
Correspondence, 1971-1972
(2 folders)
Death in helicopter crash, 1972
Memoranda, 1971-1972
Newcomers' briefings, 1972
Notebooks (pre-offensive), 1972
Policy statements, 1971-1972
Post-death of John Paul Vann, 1973
Powers of command, 1971
Press conference transcript, loss of Tan Canh, Pleiku, 1972
Press interview, National Broadcasting Corp., 1972
Province Senior Advisors' conference, 1971
Second Regional Assistance Group (SRAG), fact books and rosters, 1971
Sheehan correspondence and notes, 1972-1978, undated
BOX 44Region III
Clippings, 1966-1969
Correspondence, 1966-1969
(2 folders)
Debrief, 1968
Memoranda, 1966-1969, undated
(2 folders)
Ninth Division operations, 1969
Notebook leaves, undated
Pacification reports, 1966-1969, undated
(2 folders)
Policy statements, 1967-1969
Sheehan notes, 1973-1982, undated
White House meeting, 1969
BOX 45Region IV
Clippings, 1969-1971
Correspondence, 1969-1971
Fact books and planning guide, 1970, undated
Memoranda, 1969-1971
(2 folders)
Notebooks, 1969-1970, undated
BOX 46Pacification reports, 1969-1970
Policy statements, 1969-1971
Progress report, 1969
Sheehan notes and correspondence, 1974-1985
Awards
Christian Herter Award, American Foreign Service Association, 1969 See also Oversize
United States government, 1968-1970, undated
Vietnamese government, 1965-1972 See also Oversize
(2 folders)
BOX 47General file
Ambushes and vehicle incidents, 1967-1970
Benoit, Charles, position papers, 1969
(2 folders)
Buddhists, 1966, undated
Chau, Tran Ngoc, arrest and trial
Correspondence and memoranda, 1968-1970, undated
Press reports and clippings, 1970
Civilian casualties and destruction of property, 1964-1970
Corruption, ghost troops and misuse of government funds, 1970
BOX 48Council on Foreign Relations, 1969-1971
Defoliation, 1967
Disputes with the press, 1963-1972
English-language teaching, undated
Entertainment expenses, 1969-1972
"Harnessing the Revolution"
Analysis and recommendations, 1965-1967
Sheehan annotated copy, undated
Helicopter pilot training, 1971
Identification cards and papers, 1965-1971
"Information for Sub-sector Advisors," undated
Kennedy, Edward M., tour of Vietnam, 1967-1968
Maps and miscellany, 1970, undated
Montagnards, 1971-1972
Negotiations and residual force, 1972, undated
Optimism
Documents, 1968-1971
Sheehan notes and correspondence, 1974-1976, undated
Orientation memoranda, undated
BOX 49Pacification position papers and reports, 1964-1969, undated
(4 folders)
Pentagon job offer, 1966, 1984, undated
"Pentagon Papers," Sheehan notes, undated
Printed matter
Health programs, 1963-1965
Miscellaneous, 1963-66, undated
BOX 50Ramsey, Douglas, 1966-69
Reports, 1965-1970, undated
Rubber industry, 1969-1971
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Vietnam, testimony, 1970
Trips to the United States
Administrative records, 1965-1972
Correspondence, 1966-1972
Itineraries and schedules, 1970-1972
United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., photocopies of John Paul Vann papers, 1966-1972
(3 folders)
BOX 51North Vietnam offensives
1968 Tet
Correspondence, 1968
Notebook, 1968
Photographs, Ben Hoa, 1968
Sheehan notes, undated
1972 Easter
Correspondence and memoranda, 1972
Miscellaneous press reports, 1972
Newcomers' briefing transcript, 1972
Notebooks, 1972
Press conference transcripts, 1972
Sheehan notes and correspondence, 1978-1979, undated
Tan Canh evacuation, 1972-1973, undated
Personnel records
Employment
Appointment, 1964-1965
Miscellany, 1965-1972
Health insurance, 1965
Job description for senior advisor, undated
Performance evaluation reports, 1965-1971, undated
Printed matter, 1963-1965
BOX 52Photographs
Prints, 1965-1972, undated
(8 folders)
BOX 53 (5 folders)
BOX 54Transparencies, 1965-1972, undated
BOX 55Speech transcripts
1965, Oct. 5, School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colo.
1966, June 7, School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colo.
1967
Nov. 27, Naval Reserve Intelligence Unit, Denver, Colo.
Nov. 28, School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colo.
1969, Feb. 19, School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colo.
1971, Mar. 19, Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, Monterey, Calif.
1972, Jan. 8, Vincent Davis home, Lexington, Ky.
BOX 55-57 Subject File, 1964-1984
Notes by Sheehan, clippings, photographs, and printed material concerning Vann.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 551962-1963 period, undated
1964 period, 1972, undated
Alienation from American life, 1968-1976
Ambition to become secretary of the army, undated
Ancestry, 1977-1982, undated
Attitude towards Vietnamese, 1977, undated
BOX 56Biographical data and character analysis, 1972-1975
Birth, 1981, undated
Boyhood and youth, 1972-1982, undated
Correspondence, undated
Crash and death
General notes, 1972-1983, undated
Photographs of site, 1972
Transcript of Sheehan tape, trip to site, 1972
Discouragement in late 1967-early 1968 period,
1977-1983, undated
Ego, undated
Imperial mind-set, 1975-1976
Keepsakes, 1975, undated
Korea, 1981, undated
Leadership qualities, undated
Lie detectors, 1978-1983
Love of danger, 1976, undated
MacArthur, Douglas, admiration of, undated
Mannerisms, undated
BOX 57Nha Trang headquarters, 1972
Norfolk, Va., 1980, undated
Physical traits, resemblance to John Paul Spry, undated
Phoenix program, undated
Profiles
Halberstam, David, Esquire article, 1964, undated
Miscellaneous, 1963-1976
Soldier of Fortune Magazine, 1980
Relationship with Daniel Ellsberg and others, 1972-1976
(2 folders)
Sadism, undated
Self-promotion, undated
Sense of destiny, undated
Sense of humor, undated
Sex life, 1977-1984, undated
Southern culture, 1973-1976, undated
Speaking engagements, undated
Vanity, undated
Vietnamization, 1968-1976, undated
Watergate, 1973-1975, undated
BOX 58-83 Individuals, 1957-1991
Correspondence, notebooks, journals, position and strategy papers, briefings, after-action reports, general reports, book and article manuscripts and other writings, trial transcripts, interview notes, maps, photographs, press releases, administrative records, training guidelines, and printed material collected by Sheehan, together with his notes. Material concerns individuals involved in the Vietnam War and background to the conflict in world history.
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual and thereunder by subject or type of material.
BOX 58Abrams, Creighton, 1965-1976
Adams, Samuel, 1969-1975
Alsop, Joseph
Clippings, 1971-1989
Newspaper columns
General, 1970-1975
Vann, John Paul, 1969-1972
Notes, 1971-1989, undated
Alsop, Susan Mary, 1975-1982
Anderson, Jack Warren, undated
Arnett, Peter, undated
"A" miscellaneous, 1975-1987
Ba, Ly Tong, 1973-1987, undated
Barnet, Richard J., 1969-1974
Benoit, Charles
Correspondence and notes, 1968-1974
Draft reports, 1968-1969
(2 folders)
Bernard, Carl F., 1969-1985, undated
BOX 59Binh, Le Nguyen, 1973-1979
Bowers, Arnold C., undated
Bradley, Francis X.
Notes, 1976, undated
Papers on army policy, 1956-1969
(6 folders)
Buchanan, Patrick, 1974
Bumgardner, Everet F., 1971-1982
Bunker, Ellsworth
Clippings, 1965-1984
(2 folders)
BOX 60Chau, Tran Ngoc, espionage case, 1970
Notes, 1966-1985, undated
"B" miscellaneous, 1973-1985
Cai, Huynh Van, 1972-1974
Cao, Huynh Van, 1963-1987
Carver, George A., 1965-1980, undated
Cassidy, Richard, 1972
Chambers, Willard, 1972
Chapelle, Dickey, 1962
Chau, Nguyen Van, 1975-1976
Chau, Tran Ngoc
Arrest and imprisonment, 1969-1974
Biographical material, 1966-1970, undated
Bright Shining Lie notes, 1974-1980, undated
(2 folders)
Material given to Sheehan
Ellsberg, Daniel, file, 1969-1974, undated
(2 folders)
Emerson, Gloria, file, 1975
Moose, Richard, file, 1969-1974
BOX 61New York Times
Article by Sheehan
Correspondence, 1980
Drafts, 1979-1980, undated
Notes, 1979-1980, undated
Washington Bureau clip file, 1970
Photographs, undated
Trial
Clippings, press reports, notes, 1970
Interview of Daniel Ellsberg, 1970
Transcripts and statements, circa 1970
BOX 62Writings
"The American Syndrome," 1991
"From War to Peace: Revolution in the Village," book manuscript, circa 1975
"Intimate Enemies: Americans at War," book proposal, 1987
Miscellaneous statements on the war, 1969, undated
Position papers on pacification, circa 1965
Chuc, Nguyen Van, 1972-1975
Clay, Frank B., circa 1973-1979
Colby, William Egan, 1971-1984
Conein, Lucien (Lou), 1975-1978, undated
Craig, Robert Verlin, 1969-1973
Crutchfield, Edward Eugene, 1987
"C" miscellaneous, 1973-1985
Dat, Le Duc, 1968-1972
Davis, Vincent, 1972, 1978, undated
Demma, Vincent, 1962-1963
(1 folder)
BOX 63 (2 folders)
DePuy, William E., 1965-1980
Diem, Bui, 1975
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 1965, undated
Dillard, George and Lillian, 1975
Don, Tran Van, 1976
Dong, Pham Van, 1972-1979
Doughtie, Ronald E., 1972
Drummond, James B., 1979
Dunn, John M. ("Mike"), 1976-1979
Dzu, Ngo, 1971-1977
"D" miscellaneous, 1972-1984
Ellsberg, Daniel
Activities after "Pentagon Papers," 1978-1985
Antinuclear crusade, 1978-1980
Antiwar crusade, 1968-1972
Biographical material, 1971-1986
Burglary of psychiatrist's office, 1973-1976
BOX 64Central Intelligence Agency, 1976
Chau, Tran Ngoc, arrest and trial, 1966-1975, undated
Correspondence
With Sheehan, 1973-1979
With others, 1969-1973
Documents from, 1965-1969
"Escalating in a Quagmire," 1970
Hau Nghia province reports, 1965-1966
Interviews
"Hearts and Minds," 1972-1973
(2 folders)
News media, 1972-1973
With Sheehan, 1974-1976
Marriage to Patricia Marx, 1972-1975
BOX 65Miscellany, 1969-1975
Nuclear weaponry, 1972-1980
Outline of references in Bright Shining Lie, undated
Pacification reports, 1965-1967
"Pentagon Papers," 1971-1976
Photographs, 1972
Position papers on Vietnam, 1965-1968
(2 folders)
BOX 66Trial, 1971-1975, undated
"Vietnam Diary," Reporter, 1966
Watergate, 1976-1982
Ewell, Julian, 1969-1978
"E" miscellaneous, 1973-1982
Fall, Bernard B., 1973
Forrest, John B., "The Civic Action Advisory Effort," 1969
Franjola, Matthew, 1972-1976
"F" miscellaneous, 1972-1974, undated
Gaspard, George, 1963-1985
Gasset, Silas, 1977-1982
Giap, Vo Nguyen, 1971-1984
Goodwin, Richard, 1975
Greene, Wallace M., 1984-1987
Grinter, Lawrence, "Bargaining between Saigon and Washington: Dilemmas of Linkage during War," 1974
BOX 67"G" miscellaneous, 1972-1984
Halberstam, David
Interviews
Compiled by Halberstam for Best and Brightest, 1967-1971, undated
With Sheehan for Bright Shining Lie, 1971-1972, undated
Photograph, circa 1962 See Oversize
Reviews of his writing, 1963-1984
Writings
Ap Bac battle, 1963
Miscellaneous, 1963-1985
Vietnam War, 1962-1963
(2 folders)
Halberstam, Michael, 1980-1986
Harkins, Paul D., 1962-1980
Healy, Michael, 1972-1975
Helms, Richard, 1975, undated
Henry, John B., "March 1968: Continuity or Change?"
1971-1977
(2 folders)
BOX 68Hickey, Gerald C., 1973-1974
Hill, John G., Jr., 1975-1976
Hilsman, Roger, 1965-1975
Himmler, Heinrich, 1965
Holbrooke, Richard C., 1972-1980
Hollingsworth, James, 1972-1976
Hopkins, Garland, 1959-1982
Hoyt, Palmer, 1964-1966
Hughes, Richard, 1974, undated
(2 folders)
Hunt, E. Howard, 1971-1974
Huntington, Samuel P., 1968
"H" miscellaneous, 1972-1979
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1968-1983
Johnston, Tess, 1962-1977
(1 folder)
BOX 69 (2 folders)
Jones, Thomas S., 1974
Just, Ward, 1975
"J" miscellaneous, 1966-1975, undated
Kaiser, Rudolph, 1972
Kama, Peter, 1972-1986
Kaplan, Philip, 1972-1985
Kennedy, Edward M., 1979-1983
Kennedy, John F.
Biographical material, 1964-1984
Notes for Bright Shining Lie, 1977, undated
Vietnam
Newspaper clippings, 1961-1963
Documents, 1961-1963
Kennedy, Robert F., 1968
Kent, Irvin, 1968-1971
Khanh, Nguyen, 1962-1977
Khoi, Dang Duc, 1972-1976
BOX 70Kissinger, Henry, 1971-1985
Komer, Robert W.
Biographical material, 1967-1985
Interviews
"Hearts and Minds," 1969-1970
News media, 1967-1968
With Sheehan, 1974-1985
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Tex., 1957-1967
Relationship with Vann, 1972-1974, undated
Writings, 1966-1975
Krock, Arthur, 1968-1974
Krulak, Victor H. ("Brute")
Correspondence, 1984-1986
Interview, 1979, undated
Notes for Bright Shining Lie
Chapter 4, 1980, undated
Chapter 7, 1980-1985, undated
Report to joint chiefs of staff, 1963-1980
BOX 71Ky, Nguyen Cao, 1972-1984
"K" miscellaneous, 1973-1988
Ladd, Jonathan F. ("Fred"), 1972-1980, undated
Lake, Anthony, 1972-1984
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1962-1987
Lawrence, T. E., 1974-1976
Leslie, Jacques, notebooks, 1971-1972
(2 folders)
Loan, Nguyen Ngoc, 1976-1979
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1973-1985, undated
Luce, Henry, 1978
"L" miscellaneous, 1972-1983
MacArthur, Douglas, 1978-1979, undated
Magsaysay, Ramon, 1977-1987, undated
Man, Chu Huy, 1974, undated
Martin, Graham, 1974-1980
Mays, Robert E., 1978, undated
McDaniel, Frenchy Zois, 1972-1974
BOX 72McNamara, Robert
Biographical material, 1964-1984
Outline of references in Bright Shining Lie, 1967-1985
McPherson, Harry, 1967-1977
Meyer, Edward, 1979-1983
Meyerson, Harvey, 1970-1980
Miller, Lloyd, 1981
Mirsky, Jonathan, 1972-1975
Mohr, Charles, 1972
Montague, Robert, 1975
Moorfield, Kenneth, 1975
"M" miscellaneous, 1971-1982
Nixon, Richard M.
Biographical material, 1972-1985
Vietnam, 1965-1985
(2 folders)
Watergate, 1973-1977, undated
Nolting, Frederick, 1975
"N" miscellaneous, 1972-1983
BOX 73Odom, Raymond, 1972
"O" miscellaneous, 1965-1975, undated
Patton, George S., Jr., 1974
Patton, George S., III, 1970-1985
Phillips, Rufus, 1976, undated
Piao, Lin, 1965
Pizzi, Joseph, 1976
Polk, William, 1974
Porter, Daniel, 1962-1974, undated
Pran, Dith, 1980-1984, undated
Prevost, Herbert, undated
Puckett, Ralph, 1972-1977, undated
"P" miscellaneous, 1974-1984, undated
Quang, Dang Van, 1973-1976, undated
Raby, Joseph, Jr., 1973-1975, undated
Raisig, Paul, Jr.
Correspondence
Family
Aug. 1962-July 1963
(4 folders)
BOX 74Feb. 1968-Feb. 1969
(4 folders)
Miscellaneous, 1962-1968, 1977
Ramsey, Douglas
Captivity
Debriefing, 1973
Documents, 1966-1970
Outline of references in Bright Shining Lie, undated
Hua Nghia province
Official reports, 1965
Outline of references in Bright Shining Lie, 1980, undated
Strategy paper, "Harnessing the Revolution," 1965
BOX 75Interview summaries, 1975-1976
Memoir, 1972
(2 folders)
Photographs, 1965
Post-Vietnam War, 1973-1975
Raskin, Marcus, 1966-1975
Reagan, Ronald W., 1983-1984
Rhotenberry, R. M., 1972-1976, undated
Richards, Robert D., 1975-1976, undated
BOX 76Robinson, Hugh, 1976
Rogovin, Mitchell, 1975-1979
Roosevelt, Franklin D., undated
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1978, undated
Rosson, William, 1975-1983
Rostow, Walt W., 1970-1983
Rusk, Dean, 1974-1980
Russo, Anthony, 1971-1974
"R" miscellaneous, 1972-1979, undated
Scanlon, James B., 1977, undated
Schlesinger, James, 1974
Scotton, Frank, 1964-1977
Air war, 1972, undated
Miscellaneous, 1964-1988
North Vietnam
Easter offensive, 1972
(4 folders)
BOX 77Military, 1972-1973, undated
(3 folders)
Peasantry, 1971-1972, undated
Phung Hoang, 1969-1973
Reports, 1964-1967
(2 folders)
BOX 78 (3 folders)
South Vietnam
Central Office (COSVN), 1968-1972
Corruption, 1971-1973
Intelligence reports, 1972-1973
Military, 1972
BOX 79Miscellaneous, 1963-1972
(2 folders)
Refugee reports, 1972
Vann, John Paul, death of, 1972
Scowcroft, Brent, 1972-1975
Shaplen, Robert, 1966-1979
Sihanouk Norodom, 1979-1983
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 1973-1974
Stern, Laurence, 1972, undated
Stilwell, Richard, 1972-1991
Story, Edward C., 1972-1973
Swango, John, 1968-1971
"S" miscellaneous, 1967-1985
BOX 80Taylor, Maxwell D., 1961-1980, undated
Thao, Hoang Minh, 1965-1976, undated
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 1968-1980
Thompson, Robert, 1969-1980
Timmes, Charles J., 1979, undated
Toan, Nguyen Van, 1973, undated
Tra, Tran Van, 1973-1986
Trien, Le Ngoc, 1973, undated
Truby, John, 1972
Truman, Harry S., 1980
"T" miscellaneous, 1973-1985, undated
Vien, Cao Van, 1973-1981, undated
"V" miscellaneous, 1979-1984
Wear, George, 1973-1975
Westmoreland, William C.
Biographical material, 1971-1985
Columbia Broadcasting System libel trial, 1984-1985
Interview for "Hearts and Minds," 1973
Laos operation, undated
North Vietnam 1968 Tet offensive, 1967-1985
Press dispatches, 1966-1969
Writings, 1968-1985
BOX 81Weyand, Frederick C.
Biographical material, 1967-1984
Clippings, New York Times Washington Bureau, 1968-1975
Wheeler, Earle, 1963-1978
Whitney, Craig, 1971-1973
Wilson, Arnold, 1974
Wilson, Samuel, 1976-1983
Wilson, Wilbur
Biographical material, 1972-1981, undated
Correspondence, 1964-1972
Directives, 1972
Finances, 1968-1971
Personal effects, 1973
Photographs, 1973, undated
Travel, 1969-1972
Work file, 1968-1972, undated
BOX 82Wilson, Woodrow, 1976, undated
Wisner, Frank, Jr., 1975-1985
Wisner, Frank, Sr., 1982-1983
"W" miscellaneous, 1972-1985
York, Robert H., 1973-1984
Yorty, Samuel, 1973
Young, Earl, 1969-1977
Ziegler, Richard G.
Ap Bac battle
After-action report, 1963
Notebook, 1963
Dan Tien operations
After-action reports, 1962, undated See also Oversize
Notebook, 1962
Sheehan notes, 1962, undated
Helicopter operations, 1962-1963, 1979
Interview notes, 1978-1980, undated
BOX 83Journal, Seventh Division activities
Original, 1962-1963
Photocopy with annotations by Sheehan, undated
Miscellaneous
Reports, 1961-1963
War documents (1962), copies, 1979, undated
Orders and awards, 1962-1963, undated
Vietnam training and tactical guidelines, 1962, undated
Zorthian, Barry, 1974-1984
"Z" miscellaneous, 1968-1982
BOX 83-103 Vietnam, 1953-1990
Printed matter, maps, photographs, and notes by Sheehan concerning Vietnamese history.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 83Advisory effort, 1971
Agency for International Development (AID) officials, undated
Amnesty for draft resisters and deserters, 1974-1976
Air war
B-52 bombers, 1980
Bombing procedures, 1966
Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi, 1975
Fighter bombers, 1953-1962
BOX 84Futrell, Robert, "The United States Air Force in Southeastern Asia: The Assistance and Combat Advisory Years, 1950-1965"
Dissertation typescript, 1972
(4 folders)
Footnotes for Ap Bac battle, undated
Miscellaneous notes, undated
Ho Chi Minh trail, 1985
BOX 85Martin, Donald F., "Contemporary Historical Evaluation of Counterinsurgency Operations," (CHECO), Parts I-II, IV-VI, 1964
(5 folders)
BOX 86Notes and clippings, 1966-1980, undated
Amerasian children, 1982-1985, undated
American
Attitudes toward Vietnamese, 1967
Dependents, undated
Domestic conflict concerning war, 1970-1975
Mothers, 1976
Stay-behinds, 1974, undated
Antiwar movement, 1972-1981
Ap Bac battle
After-action reports, Vietcong captured documents, 1963
(2 folders)
Clippings, 1963
Lewis, Thomas J., "Year of the Hare: Bureaucratic Distortion in the U.S. Military View of the Vietnam War in 1963," M.A. thesis, 1972
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Chain of Command (MACV COC) log, 1-5 Jan. 1963, undated
BOX 87Miscellany, 1965
Notes by army historians, 1963
Photographs and maps from James Scanlon, undated
"VC Battalion 261–A Quantitative Profile," United States Information Service, 1964
Working maps, sketches, and photographs, circa 1963
Army and Air Force of the Republic of Vietnam,
1965-1972, undated
Automat Kalashnikov (AK)-47 rifle, 1980-1981, undated
Ben Het, notes on fall of, 1970-1972
Bibliography, 1965
Binh Dinh province, 1965
Binh Long province, undated
Bloodbath theory, 1972
Cambodia
United States 1970 operation, 1971-1975
War and occupation, 1978-1985
(2 folders)
Cao Dai sect, undated
Casualties
Civilians and damages to civilian property
Miscellaneous notes, undated
BOX 88Newsweek reports, 1972
Military, 1975-1984, undated
Central Intelligence Agency operations, 1974-1984, undated
Chieu Hoi (defector) program, 1965-1970
Civil service, 1964
Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG) and other mercenaries, undated
Civilian Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS)Humor, 1965-1967
Organization, 1968-1972, undated
Songs, 1975, undated
Collapse of South Vietnam
Clippings, 1975
(2 folders)
General notes, 1974-1976, undated
BOX 89Saigon, tenth anniversary, 1985
United States arms captured, 1976, undated
Committee of Responsibility, 1968
Communications, 1962-1980
Communist Party
South Vietnam, 1966
Strategy, post-Paris agreement, 1971-1973
Takeover
General notes, 1975
(3 folders)
Tenth anniversary series, 1985
BOX 90Conference, secretary of defense, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1962
Corruption, 1968-1987, undated
Defoliation, 1969-1983
Detente, 1975
Dien Bien Phu, 1984
Domino theory, 1968
Economic development, 1974
Elections in the south, 1964
Fighting, post-Paris agreement, 1973-1974
Films and television
"Hearts and Minds," film documentary, 1975
Notes, 1968-1983
(2 folders)
"Ten Thousand Day War," Canadian television documentary, 1979-1982
BOX 91Foreign press corps, 1972, undated
French involvement in Indochina, 1973-1986
French magazine clippings, 1965
G.I. lingo, motivation, songs, 1973-1990, undated
Government of Vietnam (GVN)
Areas of control, 1962
Communist infiltration, 1975
Constitution, 1964
Military conscription, undated
Organization, 1964
(3 folders)
Pacification reports, 1965
Visit of United States deputy secretary of state, 1974
"Hamburger Hill" battle, 1978-1981
Helicopters, 1962
Hill 875 battle, 1967-1979, undated
BOX 92Histories, 1962-1980, undated
Hoa Hoa sect, 1962-1980, undated
Humor, 1968
Ia Drang 1965 battle, 1990
Identification papers and cards, 1972, undated
Impact on
American life, 1976, undated
United States Army, 1978-1982, undated
Inflation, 1983
Insurgency, 1960-1980
Khe Sanh battles in 1967, 1985
BOX 93Kien Hoa province, undated
Korean forces, undated
Land reform, 1966-1970
Laos 1971 operation, 1970-1980
Long An province
Experimental pacification program, 1969
United States Information Agency studies, 1963-1964
Maps, 1964-1973, undated
Marine advisors, 1972
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV)
Annual report, 1967
Background, 1967-1972
Briefing for visitors and newcomers, 1962
Commanders and other staff, undated
Military buildup, 1965
Military draft in United States, 1978-1980
Military strength in South Vietnam, 1973, undated
BOX 94Miscellany, 1970-1980, undated
(3 folders)
Montagnards, 1969-1974, undated
My Lai massacre, 1970-1979, undated
Negotiations, 1973-1974
New Life Hamlet program, 1964-1966, undated
New Times anniversary issue, 1974
New York Times index, 1961-1963
North Vietnam
General, 1972-1975, undated
BOX 95Offensives
1968 Tet
Assessment, 1968
Khe Sanh and Hue, 1968
Miscellaneous notes, 1967-1968, 1976
Order of battle controversy, 1982-1985, undated
Prior intelligence warnings, 1968
Schandler, Herbert, "Making a Decision: Tet 1968," 1975
(4 folders)
1972 Easter
Binh Dihn province
Interviews and notes, undated
Official logs, undated
Statistics, 1972, undated
BOX 96Government of Vietnam accounts, 1972
Interrogation of prisoners of war and analyses of North Vietnamese intentions, 1972
Kontum battle
Government of Vietnam accounts, 1972
Notes, 1972-1973, undated
Maps before and after, undated
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam history with 1973 "countdown," 1975
Miscellaneous
Clippings, 1972
Notes, 1972
Rocket Ridge battle, 1972, undated
Tan Canh battle, 1972, undated See also Oversize
United States advisors to Vietnamese airborne division, undated
BOX 97Oil, 1976
Organizations and personnel lists, 1971-1974
Orphans and widows, 1973-1976
Pacification
Miscellany, 1968-1983, undated
Region III provincial plans, 1970
Paris agreement, 1973
Notes, 1974-1976, undated
Text, 1973
Personalities, 1965-1976, undated
Phoenix program, 1969-1971, undated
Poetry, 1969-1972, undated
Position papers, undated
Postwar
Miscellaneous clippings, 1974-1980
Planning, 1969
BOX 98Reeducation camps and prisons, 1976-1980, undated
Refugees
Anticommunist "Liberation Movement," 1983
Miscellaneous notes, 1975-1984, undated
Relations with
Cambodia, 1979
China, 1975-1984, undated
United States, 1976-1985, undated
Press coverage
"American Whitepaper" transcript, 5 Oct. 1965
Kalb, Debby, "Uncontrollable Element: American Reporters in Vietnam, 1961-1965," 1985
Miscellaneous, 1968, undated
Printed matter
Government, 1960-1961
(3 folders)
BOX 99History, 1961-1962, 1969
(2 folders)
Language studies, undated
Military training and operations, 1962-1966, undated
Miscellaneous, 1976, undated
BOX 100War, 1969-1973, undated
(5 folders)
Prisoners of war and missing in action, 1970-1985, undated
Prostitution, undated
Province chief, 1965
Quotations, 1967
RAND Corp. papers, undated
Regional and popular forces, 1965-1969
BOX 101Rust, William, "Kennedy in Vietnam," circa 1985
(2 folders)
Saigon leadership, 1974-1982, undated
Son Tay raid, 1970, undated
Statistics, 1973, undated
(2 folders)
Strategic Hamlet Program, 1962-1964
Technology, 1976, undated
Telephone books
II Corps, 1972
IV Corps, 1972
Diplomatic, 1973
BOX 102Tonkin Gulf incident, 1974-1975
U-Minh campaign, 1970-1971
United States
Army Commissary Store, Can Tho, concerning American lifestyle, 1972
Military and economic aid, 1967-1974, undated
Military survival training, undated
State Department pay scales, 1971-1972
Veterans, 1974-1984, undated
Vietcong
Biographical material on leaders, 1973-1974
Documents, 1962-1964
Organization, 1970
Propaganda
Government of Vietnam booklet, circa 1967
Leaflets, 1963-1964
Vietnamese
Manuscript, author unknown, undated
Revolution, 1962-1967, undated
Vietnamization
Miscellaneous clippings, undated
Vietcong analysis, 1970
War attrition strategy
Bibliography, 1962-1976, undated
Dudman, Richard, newspaper series, 1966
Material not needed, 1976-1978, undated
Miscellaneous notes, 1968, undated
(2 folders)
Statistical analysis, 1974-1980
BOX 103War crimes, 1971-1983, undated
War literature, 1975-1976
War memorial, Washington, D.C., 1982, undated
(2 folders)
Withdrawal of United States forces, 1971
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Conference on the History of the Vietnam War, Washington, D.C., 1983
BOX 103-107 Subject File, 1950-1985
Notes by Sheehan and material he collected including reports, article manuscripts, clippings and other printed material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 103American culture and lifestyle, 1974-1976
Armed forces, 1961-1963
"A" miscellaneous, undated
Cambodia
Civil war, 1974-1976
Famine, 1979-1985
Khmer Rouge takeover, 1975-1976
Pol Pot, 1980-1983
United States relations, 1982-1985
BOX 104Central Intelligence Agency
Center for National Security Studies, conference, Washington, D.C., 1974
Clippings, 1968-1982
Notes, 1974-1976
Cold War
Clippings, 1977-1984
Notes, 1977-1982, undated
Stalin, Joseph, 1979-1982, undated
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., working papers
Holloway, David, "The Soviet Decision to Build the Atomic Bomb," 1979
MacIsaac, David, "The Air Force and Strategic Thought, 1945-51," 1979
Wells, Samuel, "Sounding the Tocsin: NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat," 1979
Counterinsurgency publications, United States Army,
1962-1965
Cuba, race problems and revolution, 1979
El Salvador, parallels with Vietnam, 1983
"The Establishment," 1976-1979
Foreign aid position papers, 1961
BOX 105Garrison state, 1979-1984
Gold, price in relation to dollar, 1980
Imperialism
British and World War I, 1969-1981
Correspondence, 1971-1982
Impact of Vietnam War, 1978
Latin American, 1976-1984
Notes, 1974-1977, undated
Other empires, 1974-1980
Printed material, 1971-1980
"White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" (WASP) elite, 1980, undated
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., colloquia
Drake, Paul, "The Origins of United States Economic Supremacy in South America," 1979
Henrikson, Alan, "Pictures in Their Heads . . . The Geographical `Mental Maps' of American Foreign Policy Makers," 1979
Indochina
Clippings, 1972-1976
BOX 106Resource center publications, 1974-1977
(3 folders)
Iran, American intervention, 1975-1982
John Birch Society, undated
Korean War, 1950-1975, undated
Laos, 1974-1982
Military, general, 1968-1972
Miscellany, 1974-1976
Nixon, Richard M., impeachment proceedings, 1974
BOX 107Pentagon Papers, 1971-1981
Philippine insurrection of 1899, 1974
Post-Vietnam War
Military thinking, 1974-1975
Relations
With Korea, 1975
With Southeast Asia, 1975
Presidential power, 1968-1976
(2 folders)
Press
Power, 1972-1976
Role, 1972-1973
Vietnam reporting, Vincent Demma notes, 1962
Racism, United States, 1975-1985
Thailand, 1976-1980, undated
United Nations, undated
United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1976
Wars, sundry statistics, 1980, undated
Watergate, 1972-1974, undated
"Wise Men," Lyndon B. Johnson meetings with foreign policy experts, 1967-1968, undated
World War II, impact on American life, 1978-1979, undated
BOX 108-122

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Interviews and Notes, 1972-1987

BOX 108-119 Notebooks, 1972-1987
Notes by Sheehan on interviews, documents, and other sources compiled in spiral notebooks.
Arranged as numbered by Sheehan. A card index and inventory are placed at the beginning of the series.
BOX 108Card index
BOX 109Inventory and index by name and number
Nos. 1-12, 1972
(2 folders)
BOX 110Nos. 13-30, 1972
(3 folders)
BOX 111Nos. 31-48, 1973
(3 folders)
BOX 112Nos. 49-66, 1973
(3 folders)
BOX 113Nos. 67-84, 1973
(3 folders)
BOX 114Nos. 85-102, 1975
(3 folders)
BOX 115Nos. 103-120, 1975
(3 folders)
BOX 116Nos. 121-138, 1976-1978
(3 folders)
BOX 117Nos. 139-153, 1978-1980
(3 folders)
BOX 118Nos. 154-171, 1979-1980
(3 folders)
BOX 119Nos. 172-186, 1980-1987
(3 folders)
Unnumbered, 1975
BOX 120-122 Tape Summaries, 1973-1975
Typed summaries of selected interviews recorded by Sheehan on audiocassette tapes, with occasional annotations by Sheehan. Arranged alphabetically by name of person interviewed.
BOX 120Allen, Mary, undated
An, Tran Van, undated
Anderson, Jack Warren, undated
Arnett, Peter, undated
Ba, Ly Tong (includes notes on interview with Nguyen Van Toan), undated
Bable, Gene, undated
Barnes, Thomas J., undated
Basi ceremony, undated
Benoit, Charles, undated
Benson, George, undated
Bernard, Carl F., undated
Black, Edward P., undated
Blazey, Frank E., undated
Brady, Philip O., undated
Bumgardner, Everet F., undated
Bunker, Ellsworth, undated
Cai, Huynh Van, undated
Cao, Huynh Van, undated
Carey, Richard, includes dictated journal notes, undated
Carlson, Verner, undated
Carrington, G. Baber, undated
Carta, Jerry, undated
Carter, Bobby E., undated
Cassidy, Richard, undated
Ceremony at State Department for Vann and others killed in service, undated
Chau, Nguyen Van, undated
Chuc, Nguyen Van, undated
Clay, Frank B., undated
Cloninger, James M., undated
Colby, William Egan, undated
Colin, Donald I., undated
Conein, Lucien ("Lou"), undated
Craig, Robert Verlin, undated
Cunningham, Cleve, undated
Dam, Bui Dinh, undated
Davis, Vincent (includes interview with Col. Legere), undated
Dunn, John M. ("Mike"), undated
BOX 121Dzu, Ngo, undated
Eatley, Charles, undated
Eisenhower, Thomas H., undated
Ellsberg, Daniel, 1973, undated
Fass, Horst, undated
Franjola, Matthew, undated
Gall, Frank, Jr., undated
Gulvas, Joseph, undated
Habib, Philip Charles, undated
Hacker, Gary L., undated
Halberstam, David, undated
Halperin, Morton, undated
Hanh, Nguyen Tri, undated
Harrington, Richard, undated
Haverkamp, Roy, undated
Herbert, James A., undated
Heslin, John, undated
Hickey, Gerald C., undated
Hill, John G., Jr., undated
Holbrooke, Richard C., undated
Hollis, Harris W., undated
Hughes, Richard, undated
Hung, Nguyen Manh, undated
Huss, Mark, undated
Jacobson, George, undated
Johnson, Harry ("Buzz"), undated
Johnston, Tess, undated
Jones, Thomas S., undated
Josephson, Robert, undated
Kama, Peter, undated
Kaplan, Philip, undated
Karnow, Stanley, undated
Kent, Irvin, undated
Knowles, Wendell P., undated
Komer, Robert W., 1975, undated
Kotzebue, Albert, undated
Ladd, Jonathan F. ("Fred"), undated
Leslie, Jacques, undated
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., undated
Mann, Charles, undated
Maxson, Russell, undated
McDaniel, Frenchy Zois, undated
Mellen, Robert G., undated
Mendenhall, Robert J., undated
Modderno, John, undated
Mohr, Charles, undated
Montague, Robert, undated
Moorfield, Kenneth, undated
Moose, Richard, undated
Moreau, Ron, undated
BOX 122Navarro, Edmundo, undated
Nhon, Ma Sanh, undated
Odom, Robert, undated
Parkinson, Richard, undated
Patton, George S., III, undated
Payette, Robert C., undated
Pike, Douglas, undated
Prosser, Lamar, undated
Quinn, Kenneth M., undated
Raby, Joseph, Jr., undated
Raby, Melvin L., undated
Raisig, Paul, Jr., undated
Ralston, Kathleen Doughtie, undated
Ramsey, Douglas (includes transcript of tapes by Ramsey), undated
Rhotenberry, R. M., undated
Richards, Robert D., undated
Rose, James E. (includes notes on Philip Kaplan), undated
Rostow, Walt W., undated
Scudder, Christopher, undated
Seaman, Jonathan O., undated
Serong, Francis P., undated
Shaplen, Robert, undated
Shutt, Merrill, undated
Sidle, Winant, undated
Stapleton, Vaughn, undated
Stern, Laurence, undated
Story, Edward C., undated
Swango, John, undated
Sweet, Norman, undated
Swingle, Gary (includes Swingle's dictated history of the battle of Kon Tum), 1972, undated
Thompson, Robert, undated
Tomsen, Peter, undated
Tosolini, Mollie Tripp, 1975
Traister, Robert, undated
Truby, John, undated
Trueheart, William, undated
Van Loan, Jack, undated
Vasquez, Charles E., undated
Westmoreland, William C., undated
Weyand, Frederick C., undated
Whitehouse, Charles S., undated
Wilson, Samuel, undated
Wilson, Wilbur, undated
Wise, Jon, undated
Wisner, Frank, Jr., undated
Wong, Alexander C., undated
Wright, Lacy A., undated
York, Robert H., undated
Young, Earl, undated
Zorthian, Barry, undated
BOX 123-132

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Official Documents, 1961-1986

Documents collected by Sheehan from the Ellsworth Bunker Papers, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Pentagon Papers, and the State Department.
Arranged alphabetically according to source.
BOX 123Bunker, Ellsworth, papers, 1967-1973, 1976-1978
(2 folders)
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, papers, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Tex.
Background, 1975
Correspondence with library, 1974-1986
Documents released (1965-1968 copies), 1976
Khanh coup, undated
Lists of White House meetings and notes (1963-1969 copies), 1976
Miscellaneous (1963-1969 copies), undated
(2 folders)
BOX 124National security file, undated
Oral histories, 1976, undated
Vietnam documents, 1963-1966
(6 folders)
BOX 125Pentagon Papers
Photocopies
Censored material, 1961-1969
Credibility gap, 1967
Rogovin, Mitchell, files for, 1961-1968
(6 folders)
BOX 126Various chapters and sections, undated
(9 folders)
BOX 127 (7 folders)
BOX 128Working files of documents, questions, records of material, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 129United States Congress, House Committee on Armed Services, United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-67 (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1971)
Annotated vols. 1-2
(2 folders)
Notes, undated
BOX 130State Department cables
Dec. 1967-Jan. 1968
(4 folders)
BOX 131Feb.-Mar. 1968
(4 folders)
BOX 132Apr.-May 1968, Sept. 1973, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 133-152

Vann-Sheehan Vietnam War Collection: Current News (Early Bird Edition), 1964-1975

Issues of the early bird edition of Current News, the Defense Department publication containing reprinted press clippings for the period of the Vietnam War.
Organized by year and month.
BOX 1331964
Jan.-June
(12 folders)
BOX 1341964
July-Dec.
(12 folders)
1965
Jan.
(2 folders)
BOX 135Feb.-Sept.
(16 folders)
BOX 136Oct.-Dec.
(6 folders)
1966
Jan.-May
(10 folders)
BOX 137June-Dec.
(14 folders)
1967
Jan.
(2 folders)
BOX 138Feb.-Sept.
(16 folders)
BOX 139Oct.-Dec.
(6 folders)
1968
Jan.-May
(10 folders)
BOX 140June-Dec.
(14 folders)
1969
(2 folders)
BOX 141Feb.-Aug.
(14 folders)
BOX 142Sept.-Dec.
(8 folders)
1970
Jan.-Mar.
(6 folders)
BOX 143Apr.-Oct.
(14 folders)
BOX 144Nov.-Dec.
(4 folders)
1971
Jan.-May
(10 folders)
BOX 145June-Dec.
(14 folders)
BOX 1461972
Jan.-July
(14 folders)
BOX 147Aug.-Dec.
(10 folders)
1973
Jan.-Feb.
(4 folders)
BOX 148Mar.-Sept.
(14 folders)
BOX 149Oct.-Dec.
(6 folders)
1974
Jan.-Apr.
(8 folders)
BOX 150May-Nov.
(14 folders)
BOX 151Dec.
(2 folders)
1975
Jan.-Aug.
(12 folders)
BOX 152Sept.-Dec.
(8 folders)
BOX 153-163

Professional File: Books and Articles, 1964-1992

Drafts, research files, interviews, and notes for Sheehan's 1992 book After the War Was Over, and drafts, correspondence, notes, award citations and nominations, legal documents, and other material concerning various writings about the Vietnam War, most notably the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
Files are arranged alphabetically by title, thereunder by document type or subject.
BOX 153After the War Was Over
Drafts
Initial, undated
Random House copy editing, undated
Sheehan, Susan, comments, undated
Fact checking, 1992
Galleys
Author's, 1992
Master, 1992
Lescher, Robert, and Robert Loomis, correspondence, 1991-1992
BOX 154New Yorker article, "A Reporter at Large in Vietnam"
Drafts
By Neil Sheehan
Part I, "The North"
Working draft and queries, 1990
(4 folders)
Second, undated
Final, 1990
Part II, "The South"
Working draft and reminders, 1991
Final, 1991
By Susan Sheehan
Parts 1-2, 1990, undated
(2 folders)
Editorial comments, 1990-1991
Galleys, 1991
BOX 155Notes
By Neil Sheehan
Ap Bac, undated
China, undated
Fact checking, undated
Hospitals, undated
Miscellaneous, circa 1991
Outline, undated
Saigon, circa 1991
The South, undated
By Susan Sheehan
Index, undated
Sections 1-5, 1989
(5 folders)
Summary, 1989
Notes on revising New Yorker article for book, 1991-1992
BOX 156Subject file
Amerasians, 1989, undated
Bird, Thomas A., "Walking Point: A Vietnam Voyage," 1988
Cambodia, 1986-1992
(3 folders)
Central Office of South Vietnam, 1989
China-Vietnam relations, 1989
Directory of Officials of Vietnam, 1988
Economy
Doi Moi, 1989
General, 1988-1992
Erlanger, Steve, 1988-1992
Giap, Vo Nguyen, 1989
Hanoi
Christmas 1972 bombing, 1972-1989
Water system, 1989
Health care, 1989-1990
Ho Chi Minh Trail Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1989
Hoa Binh, 1989
Hughes, Richard, 1972-1991
Hung, Pham, 1988
BOX 157Indochina chronology, 1988-1992
(2 folders)
Labbe, Jean-Claude, 1978-1992, undated
Linh, Nguyen Van, 1987-1989
Long, Gno Vinh, "Prostitution in Vietnam," 1991
Miscellaneous facts, 1985-1989, undated
Missing in action, 1987-1992
Oanh, Nguyen Xuan, 1989
Orderly Departure Program, 1989, undated
Palmer, Laura, 1989-1990
Pike, Douglas, 1989
Refugees, 1986-1989
Schoenbrun, David, 1967-1988
Thi, Nguyen Thi, 1989, undated
Thiep, Nguyen Huy, "The Retired General," 1988
Thu, Nguyen Xuan, Hanoi Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1986-1988, undated
Trip to Vietnam
Addresses, 1988-1991
BOX 158Correspondence
Family, 1989, undated
General, 1987-1992
(3 folders)
Interviews, 1987-1989
Itinerary, 1989
Mementos, 1989
Notebooks, 1989
(16 vols.)
(2 folders)
BOX 159 (2 folders)
Index
Photographs, 1989, undated
Preparation, 1989
Telephone conversations, 1988-1992
Vietnam clippings, 1987-1992
(5 folders)
BOX 160"Hamburger Hill," Harper's Magazine
Correspondence and notes, 1969
Letters to Edward M. Kennedy (photocopies), 1969
Text, 1969
Introduction to The Battle of Dien Bien Phu by Jules Roy, 1964-1965
"John Paul Vann and the American Experience in Vietnam,” Lehrman Institute seminars, New York, N.Y., 1976
Annotated copy used in writing Bright Shining Lie, undated
Seminar papers, nos. 1-4, 1974-1976
(5 folders)
BOX 161Miscellany, 1966, 1976
Pentagon Papers See also Containers 186-188, same heading
Awards and nominations, 1971-1972
Bantam Books edition and Quadrangle reissue, 1971-1974
Correspondence and notes, 1971-1973
(2 folders)
Frankel, Max, 1971-1973
Justice Department investigation, 1971-1972
The Pentagon Papers; The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam. The Senator Gravel Edition. (Boston: Beacon Press), 1971
Vol. 1
BOX 162Vols. 2-3
(2 folders)
Speech, Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., 1971
Unger, Stanley, "The Papers and the Papers," 1972
Preface to "The Air War in Indochina," Raphael Littauer and Norman Uphoff, eds., Air War Study Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1972
(3 folders)
BOX 163 (1 folder)
BOX 163-220

Professional File: New York Times, 1956-1993

Fact sheets, information kits, press releases, printed matter, photographs, reports, statements, and other background material collected in the course of Sheehan's work as a reporter, along with his byline clippings and copy submissions, correspondence, memoranda, and notes.
Files are arranged alphabetically by assignment as Defense Department correspondent, Metropolitan desk staff, Indonesia correspondent, office files, Vietnam correspondent, and White House correspondent. Thereunder, folders are arranged alphabetically by subject or name of person. The office files are general in nature and include chronological files of byline clippings, copy submissions, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and miscellaneous items, such as records of speeches and public appearances.
BOX 163Defense Department correspondent
General
American Indians, 1969, undated
Arms
Aircraft production
C-5 program
Background material, 1968-1970
(4 folders)
Copy submissions and memoranda, 1969-1971, undated
BOX 164Notes, undated
Miscellaneous, 1964-1970
Notebooks, undated
(2 folders)
Antiradar missiles, 1966, undated
Chemical and biological weapons
Background material, 1969, undated
Copy submissions and correspondence, 1969, undated
Notes and notebooks, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 165Naval
Aircraft carriers
Background material, 1969-1970, undated
Copy submissions, undated
Ship construction, 1967-1969, undated
Sales
Background
Clippings, 1967-1968
France, 1966-1968
Miscellaneous, 1966-1968
Press releases, 1965-1969
BOX 166Printed material, 1964-1969
(6 folders)
Copy submissions, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 167Correspondence and memoranda, 1967
Notes and outlines, 1967, undated
(2 folders)
Strategic arms, 1968-1970
Association of the U.S. Army, 1966
Baldwin, Hanson W., 1966
Biafra, 1972, undated
Central Intelligence Agency, undated
Clifford, Clark, 1968, undated
Defense industry, 1969, undated
Foreign labor policy, 1968
Greene, Wallace M., 1966-1967, undated
BOX 168Guns
Background
Clippings, 1968
Press releases, reports, and statements, 1968-1969, undated
Printed material, 1968, undated
Copy submissions, undated
Correspondence and notes, 1969, undated
Notebooks, undated
BOX 169Hartke, Vance, and Daniel Brewster scandal
Background material, 1962-1970, undated
Copy submissions, undated
Notebooks, undated
Joint Chiefs of Staff advisory role, 1969, undated
Kissinger, Henry, 1969-1970
Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Background material
Clippings, 1969-1971, undated
Press releases, 1970-1971
Printed material, 1970
Copy submissions, 1970-1971, undated
Correspondence, 1971, undated
BOX 170Notebooks, 1970, undated
(2 folders)
Mediterranean powers
Background material, 1968-1971, undated
(2 folders)
Copy submissions, undated
Correspondence, drafts, and notes, undated
Mexicans, 1966-1967, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 171Middle East crisis, undated
Military pay, 1967
Moorhead, William S., 1969
National Guard, 1967-1968
National security classification system, 1971-1972, undated
National Students Association, 1966, undated
Naval power weekender, 1969, undated
Negroes in the armed forces, 1963-1969
(3 folders)
BOX 172Pentagon
Copy submissions, undated
Notebooks, undated
Office of International Security Affairs, 1969
Sponsored research, 1967-1972
(2 folders)
Telephone numbers, 1966, undated
BOX 173Pilots, 1966-1967
Procurement
Background material, 1968-1971
(2 folders)
Notebooks, undated
Rule, Gordon, 1968-1969
BOX 174Project Transition, 1967-1969
Proxmire, William S., 1968-1969
Pueblo (Ship) incident
Bucher, Lloyd, 1969
Miscellaneous, 1967-1968
Reserves, 1965-1968
(2 folders)
Riots, 1968, undated
Rivers, L. Mendel
Background
Clippings, 1966-1969, undated
Reports, 1969, undated
BOX 175Correspondence and notes, 1969
Selective Service
Background
Clippings, 1966
Press releases, 1964-1968
(3 folders)
Printed material, 1963-1968
(1 folder)
BOX 176 (1 folder)
National Advisory Committee, undated
Notes, 1966-1967
Sixth Fleet assignment
Arab-Israeli conflict
Background, 1967, undated
Correspondence, 1967
Dispatches, 1967
(2 folders)
Mementos, 1967
Notebooks, undated
Press releases, 1967
Byline clips, 1967
Copy submissions, undated
Liberty (Ship) incident, 1967
BOX 177Soviet navy
Background material, 1966-1970
(2 folders)
Copy submissions, undated
Speeches, 1966
Swiss banks
Background
Congressional hearings, 1968-1970
Reports and statements, 1969-1970, undated
Copy submissions, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 178Correspondence and notes, 1969-1970, undated
Notebooks, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 179Unidentified flying objects, 1966
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1969
Utt, James P., 1964-1969
Wars of national liberation, 1969
Miscellaneous
Background
Biographies, 1966, undated
Clippings, 1966-1970, undated
Fact sheets, 1966-1968
Information kits, 1965-1968, undated
Notes, 1966, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 180Press releases, 1966-1972, undated
(2 folders)
Printed material
1967-1970
(3 folders)
BOX 1811969-1971, undated
(2 folders)
Remarks and statements, 1966-1970, undated
Reports, 1966-1968, undated
BOX 182Copy submissions, undated
Notes and notebooks, circa 1968-1972
(115 vols.)
(2 folders)
BOX 183 (3 folders)
BOX 184 (3 folders)
BOX 185 (3 folders)
BOX 186 (2 folders)
Pentagon Papers See also Containers 161-162, same heading
Clippings, 1971-1972
(2 folders)
BOX 187Copy submissions, circa 1971-1972
Correspondence, 1971-1973
(8 folders)
BOX 188Defense Department documents, 1961-1967
Ellsberg, Daniel, 1971-1973
Memoranda and messages, 1971-1972, undated
Miscellaneous, 1971-1972
Speeches, 1971-1972
United States v. New York Times, 1971
Vietnam War
Agency for International Development (AID), 1964
Air war
Background
Clippings, 1971-1972
Miscellaneous notes, 1972
Photographs, 1972
Press releases, 1972
BOX 189Printed material, 1972
Bombing in the north, 1971-1972
Copy submissions, circa 1968-1972
Memoranda and messages, 1972
Notebooks, 1972, undated
Antiwar material
Cambodian invasion, 1970
Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1971
Cambodia
Background material, 1970
(3 folders)
BOX 190Copy submissions, undated
Central Intelligence Agency
Communist penetration in South Vietnam, 1970
Front organizations, undated
Miscellany, 1967
Command and control, 1972
Congressional antimilitary committees
Background material, 1969
(2 folders)
Copy submissions, undated
BOX 191History, 1966-1967
Hospitals and Edward M. Kennedy, 1966-1967
Letters to J. William Fulbright supporting his antiwar policy, 1966
McNamara, Robert S.
Background material, 1964-1968
Copy submissions, undated
Military assistance, 1966-1968
Miscellaneous
Background clippings, 1967-1973
Copy submissions and drafts, 1971, undated
Correspondence and notes, 1969-1972, undated
BOX 192Notebooks, undated
(35 vols.)
(2 folders)
BOX 193 (2 folders)
BOX 194Printed material, 1969-1971
(2 folders)
Studies, undated
Transcripts, 1968-1972
Mondale, Walter F., 1970
Navy, 1966, undated
NBC News, "White Paper: Vietnam Hindsight"
Correspondence, 1971
Transcript and press clips, 1971
(2 folders)
BOX 195Negotiations to end the war, weekend article, 1972
North Vietnam offensive, Tet 1968, intelligence controversy, 1966-1975
North Vietnam visa application, 1967
Pacification strategy, 1971
Pentagon propaganda
Collected documents, 1966-1970
(3 folders)
Drafts, memoranda, notes, and outlines, 1970, undated
BOX 196Vietnam orientation material, undated
(2 folders)
Prisoners of war
Kennedy, Edward M., lists, 1970-1972
Rescue operation, 1970
Public relations, 1966-1967
Pybus, Wimby, 1971
Senate preparedness subcommittee, circa 1967
Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, 1969
Statistics, 1965-1968
Strategic reserves, 1968, undated
Strategy, 1968, undated
Stennis, John, committee, 1966-1968
Thailand, 1966
Troop rotation, 1969, undated
Vietnamese communist strategy, undated
BOX 197War crimes
General
Background material
Miscellaneous, 1970-1971, undated
(3 folders)
National Committee for a Citizen's Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam, 1971, undated
(2 folders)
Copy submissions and drafts, undated
Correspondence and memoranda, 1969-1972
BOX 198Notes, 1970-1971, undated
Review of Conversations with Americans, by Mark Lane, New York Times Book Review, 1971
Copy submissions, undated
Correspondence, 1971
Interview, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1971
Letters to the editor, 1971
Notes, circa 1971
"Should We Have War Crime Trials?" New York Times Book Review, 1971
Background material
(2 folders)
BOX 199Copy submissions and drafts
Correspondence
(2 folders)
Notes
Press clips
Reprints
Metropolitan desk, 1964
Copy submissions, undated
Notebooks and miscellany, undated
BOX 200Indonesia correspondent
Background
Asia-Africa conferences, 1964-1965
General
Notes, 1965, undated
Press releases, 1963-1965, undated
(2 folders)
Printed material, 1960-1964, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 201Reports, 1963-1965
(2 folders)
Byline clips, 1965
Copy submissions
Cables, Feb.-Aug. 1965
(2 folders)
Mailers, 1965
Messages, 1965
Notes, outlines, and drafts, 1965
(2 folders)
Correspondence, 1965
Map of central Java, 1965
BOX 202Notebooks, undated
(39 vols.)
(3 folders)
BOX 203 (1 folder)
Photographic negatives, 1965
Preparation for assignment, 1965
Briefing notes
Correspondence and miscellany
Office file
Appointment book, 1970
Blair Summer School for Journalism, Blairstown, N.J., 1967
Book manuscripts for comment
Halberstam, David, [One Very Hot Day], 1967
(3 folders)
BOX 204Stafford, Peter, "Dickerings," 1971
(2 folders)
Walt, Lewis, "America Faces Defeat," 1972
(2 folders)
Chronological file
Byline clippings, 1966-1971, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 205Copy submissions
Sept. 1966-Dec. 1967
(11 folders)
BOX 206Jan.-May 1968
(3 folders)
Sept.-Oct. 1968
(2 folders)
Jan.-Apr. 1972
Correspondence
1966-1967
(3 folders)
BOX 2071968-1971
(9 folders)
BOX 2081972-1973
(3 folders)
Undated
Memoranda, messages, and notes
Briefing policy, 1971
Miscellaneous
1966-1970
(7 folders)
BOX 2091970-1972
(2 folders)
Naval War College, Newport, R.I., talk, 1970
Parking violations, 1969-1972
Television news show appearances, 1971-1972
Vietnam correspondent
Background
Briefings, bulletins, and press releases, 1965-1966
Cables, 1966, undated
Clippings, 1964-1966, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 210 (6 folders)
BOX 211Notes, 1963-1966, undated
Printed material, 1966, undated
Reports, 1962-1966, undated
(2 folders)
Copy submissions
Ia Drang battle
Byline clips, 1965
Correspondence and notes, 1992-1993
Dispatches, 1965
Draft for unpublished magazine article, 1965-1967
Miscellaneous
Byline clips, 1965-1966
Drafts, circa 1965-1966
BOX 212"Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk," New York Times Magazine, 9 Oct. 1966
Correspondence with readers, 1966
(2 folders)
Editorial changes and galleys, 1966
Notes and drafts, 1966, undated
Published article, 1966
(2 folders)
Reprints, 1967
U.S. Marine Pacification in I Corps, circa 1965-1966
Correspondence and memoranda
General, 1965
Kurtz, Howard, 1966, undated
Requests for visa to North Vietnam, 1965-1967
BOX 213Notebooks, 1965-1966, undated
(80 vols.)
(3 folders)
BOX 214 (3 folders)
BOX 215Photographs, 1965-1966, undated
White House correspondent
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Administration
General
Background, 1963-1970, undated
(2 folders)
Byline clips, 1968-1969
Copy submissions, undated
Correspondence and notes, 1968, undated
Notes, 1968, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 216 (1 folder)
Press releases, 1967-1968, undated
(3 folders)
Postelection transition
Background, undated
Copy submissions, undated
Correspondence and notes, 1968-1969, undated
BOX 217Press releases, 1968-1969
(2 folders)
Memoirs
General, 1968-1971
Goldberg, Arthur J., resignation, 1971
Nixon, Richard M.
California trip
Background clips, 1969, undated
Copy submissions, 1969, undated
Correspondence, notes, and press releases, 1969
Miscellaneous, 1969, undated
BOX 218Notebooks, 1969
Press releases, 1969
Knowles, John H., 1968, undated
Miscellaneous copy submissions, undated
Nixon, Donald, 1956-1972
Otepka, Otto
Background, 1965-1969, undated
Copy submissions, 1969, undated
BOX 219Notebooks, undated
Press releases, 1969-1971
Presidential election campaigns
1964, notes on Barry Goldwater
1968, notes on Eugene J. McCarthy
1972
McCarthy, Eugene J.
Background
Copy submissions
Notes
Miscellaneous
Background
Notes
(2 folders)
BOX 220Wallace, George, assassination attempt
Presidential libraries
General
Background material, 1969-1970
(2 folders)
Copy submissions, undated
Notes, 1970, undated
(2 folders)
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Tex., 1965-1969
Richard M. Nixon Foundation, 1969-1970
BOX 221-232

Professional File: United Press International–Indochina, 1961-1964

An office file of background material, correspondence, financial records, notes, and carbon copies of dispatches from Sheehan's tenure as bureau chief in Saigon, South Vietnam.
Files are arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and chronologically thereunder.
BOX 221Background
Notes, 1963-1964, undated
(4 folders)
Printed material, 1963, undated
Press releases and statements, 1963-1964, undated
Reports
1962
BOX 2221963-1964, undated
(4 folders)
Cambodia
Cables, 1964
Correspondence, 1964
Miscellaneous documents, 1964
Newspapers, 1964
Notebooks, 1964
BOX 223Correspondence
1961-1963
(6 folders)
BOX 2241964, undated
(2 folders)
Financial records
Banking, 1962-1964
Correspondence, 1962-1964
Expense accounts, 1962-1964
Invoices, receipts, and statements, 1962-1964
Miscellany, 1962-1963
South Vietnam
Dispatches
1962
April cables
(2 folders)
May cables
(2 folders)
BOX 225June cables
(2 folders)
July cables
(3 folders)
August cables
(2 folders)
September
Cables
Casts
October
Cables
Casts
November
Cables
Casts
BOX 226December
Cables
Casts
1963
January
Ap Bac battle
Cables
Casts
Miscellaneous
Cables
Casts
February
Cables
Casts
March
Cables
Casts
April
Cables
Casts
BOX 227May
Cables
Casts
June
Cables
(3 folders)
Casts
July
Cables
(3 folders)
Casts
BOX 228August
Cables
(3 folders)
Casts
September
Cables
(3 folders)
Casts
BOX 229October
Cables
(2 folders)
Casts
November
Cables
(2 folders)
Casts
(2 folders)
December
Cables
(2 folders)
Casts
(2 folders)
BOX 2301964
January
Cables
(2 folders)
Casts
(2 folders)
February
Cables
(2 folders)
Casts
(2 folders)
March
Cables
(2 folders)
Casts
(3 folders)
April cables
Undated
BOX 231Messages, undated
(4 folders)
Notes on cables and casts
About April 1962 dispatches, 1967