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Title: Wanted Wesley Fishel : professor of political science, MSU for exploitation, racism and murder!!
Date: 1971
Collection: Radicalism Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows photographic image of Wesley Fishel. "Wanted" is in large letters above image. Below image is remaining title and explanatory text.

Title: Senate hearings on U.S. President Gerald Ford's request for aid to Vietnam. Part 2
Date: 1975-04-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Senate hearings on President Gerald Ford's request for aid to Vietnam (part 2) with the voices of James Schlesinger, Senators Thomas McIntyre, Dewey Bartlett, Robert Byrd, Daniel Inouye, John Culver, Philip Hart, Patrick Leahy, John Glenn, John Stennis, Stuart Symington, and Henry Jackson, and Frederick C. Weyand.

Title: Press conference
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1962-02-07
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks at a press conference about Russia's resumption of arms testing, aid to college students, the Viet Nam situation, censorship at the Pentagon, criticism by New York Governor Nelson Rockerfeller, the John Birch Society, the United Nations Bond issue, space development progress, and the steel strike situation.

Title: Henry Kissinger responds to the South Vietnamese accusation that it is safer to be an alley of the Soviet Union than of the United States
Creator: Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Date: 1975-04-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Kissinger says that the debate over Vietnam should not disintigrate into name-calling and blame-assigning.

Title: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media at a White House press briefing held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during President Obama's visit
Creator: Kerry, John, 1943-
Date: 2016-05-24
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media at a White House press briefing held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during President Obama's visit. Kerry explains the reasons for the visit, says Vietnam is practicing a "raging form of capitalism" and describes the results of previous efforts to improve trade relations between the two countries. Kerry says that the U.S. and Vietnam are cooperating on security issues and that Vietnam has joined the United Nations relief and peace...
Show moreU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media at a White House press briefing held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during President Obama's visit. Kerry explains the reasons for the visit, says Vietnam is practicing a "raging form of capitalism" and describes the results of previous efforts to improve trade relations between the two countries. Kerry says that the U.S. and Vietnam are cooperating on security issues and that Vietnam has joined the United Nations relief and peace initiatives. He also answers questions from the press about China's reaction to improved U.S.-Vietnamese relations, progress against ISIS in Iraq, and American objectives in the Pacific. Kerry is introduced by assistant White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz.
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Title: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2012-05-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. Obama recounts events early in the war that marked American involvement. He suggests "it is never too late to pay tribute to the men and women who answered the call of duty with courage and valor." Obama reflects on the sacrifices and continued service of Vietnam era veterans then announces that this Memorial Day begins a 13-year...
Show morePresident Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. Obama recounts events early in the war that marked American involvement. He suggests "it is never too late to pay tribute to the men and women who answered the call of duty with courage and valor." Obama reflects on the sacrifices and continued service of Vietnam era veterans then announces that this Memorial Day begins a 13-year commemoration of the war during which the Federal government will partner with local governments, private organizations, and communities.
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Title: Senator John Tower says he'll support the Congressional measure to send additional money for Vietnam
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Date: 1975-02-12
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Senator Tower says he'll vote for an additional $300,000,000 for South Vietnam while Senator Jackson says he'll oppose it.

Title: Senate hearings on U.S. President Gerald Ford's request for aid to Vietnam. Part 1
Date: 1975-04-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Senate hearings on President Gerald Ford's request for aid to Vietnam (part 1) with the voices of Henry Kissinger and Senators John McClellan, Milton Young, John Stennis, Edward Brooke, John Pastore, Mark Hatfield, Roman Hruska, Joseph Montoya, Daniel Inouye, and Ted Stevens.

Title: Interview of Margaret Easterly Canfield on her twenty-four year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and services in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars
Creator: Canfield, Margaret Easterly, 1930-
Date: 2004-01-15
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: In a wide-ranging oral history interview, Margaret Canfield talks about her twenty-four year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and serving in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Canfield says that she graduated from nursing school in 1951 and enlisted in the Army that same year. She talks about her basic training in Texas, her first assignment in Colorado, being sent to Japan in 1953 and treating casualties coming in from Korean battlefields. After the Korean War, she says that she was...
Show moreIn a wide-ranging oral history interview, Margaret Canfield talks about her twenty-four year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and serving in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Canfield says that she graduated from nursing school in 1951 and enlisted in the Army that same year. She talks about her basic training in Texas, her first assignment in Colorado, being sent to Japan in 1953 and treating casualties coming in from Korean battlefields. After the Korean War, she says that she was stationed in Utah and Hawaii and again in Asia and was finally sent to Vietnam in February 1967. Canfield discusses her various duty stations in Vietnam, treating Vietnamese civilians and U.S. and Korean troops and says that after becoming Chief Nurse at the 18th Surgical Hospital in Pleiku, she extended her tour of duty for another year. In December 1967, she says that she was transferred to a hospital in the Mekong Delta in support the 9th Infantry Division and that the hospital was shelled and virtually destroyed during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Canfield says that she returned to the U.S. after twenty-one months in Vietnam and finally retired from the Army in August 1975. Canfield is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
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Title: Interview of retired Colonel Lois A. Johns on her career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and her service in the Vietnam War
Creator: Johns, Lois A.
Date: 2007-02-06
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: In an oral history interview, retired Army Colonel Lois A. Johns talks about her education, her career in the Army Nurse Corp and her service in the Vietnam War. Johns talks about growing up in Cleveland, earning her nursing degree in 1948, a second bachelor's degree in 1950 and later two master's degrees and finally, in 1967, a doctorate. In 1950, she says that she also joined the Army Reserve and that her active duty began in 1960 when she was promoted to Captain. She describes a number of...
Show moreIn an oral history interview, retired Army Colonel Lois A. Johns talks about her education, her career in the Army Nurse Corp and her service in the Vietnam War. Johns talks about growing up in Cleveland, earning her nursing degree in 1948, a second bachelor's degree in 1950 and later two master's degrees and finally, in 1967, a doctorate. In 1950, she says that she also joined the Army Reserve and that her active duty began in 1960 when she was promoted to Captain. She describes a number of her duty stations, going back into the reserves while working and going to school and then going back on active duty as a Major for duty in Vietnam. She says that she arrived in Saigon late at night, was assigned to the "renal ward" at the 629th Medical Detachment of the 3rd Field Hospital and describes her quarters, her duties, her patients, the local cuisine and culture and says that she was awarded a Bronze Star when she left Vietnam and was assigned to the Institute for Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston. She goes on to discuss her various duty stations after Vietnam, both stateside and abroad and says that she finally retired from the Army in 1980. Johns praises her many coworkers throughout the years, but says that women often had problems dealing with their male counterparts and that sexual harassment did exist in the service. Johns is interviewed by Ruth Stewart and Patricia Martin.
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Title: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the National Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2016-05-24
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: United States President Barack Obama addresses the people of Vietnam in a speech at the National Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam. Obama talks about improving U.S.-Vietnamese relations, praises the advances Vietnam has made in recent years, and argues for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He also talks about the progress Vietnam has made in insuring human rights.

Title: Dorothy Harrison talks about M.T. "Tuck" Sacher's career in the U.S. State Department including an overseas assigment in Vietnam from 1968 to 1973
Creator: Harrison, Dorothy M. (Dorothy McDonald), 1914-2004
Date: 1983
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Based upon interviews done some years earlier, Dorothy Harrison delivers a presentation about the life of M.T. "Tuck" Sacher and her service in the U.S. State Department which began in 1954 and led to a stint in Vietnam from 1968 to 1973. Harrison discusses Sacher's duties while based near the Cambodian border and her vivid memories of the 1968 Tet Offensive and watching fighting from her roof top. Harrison says that Tuck told a story about an American nurse stationed near an old French...
Show moreBased upon interviews done some years earlier, Dorothy Harrison delivers a presentation about the life of M.T. "Tuck" Sacher and her service in the U.S. State Department which began in 1954 and led to a stint in Vietnam from 1968 to 1973. Harrison discusses Sacher's duties while based near the Cambodian border and her vivid memories of the 1968 Tet Offensive and watching fighting from her roof top. Harrison says that Tuck told a story about an American nurse stationed near an old French cemetery who reported an increase in funerals to the American Embassy. Embassy officials ignored the information, Harrison says and later found that the Viet Cong had been hiding ammunition in the cemetery in preparation for Tet.
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Title: U.S. President Bill Clinton talks about the results of the 2000 presidential election and his upcoming visit to Vietnam
Creator: Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Date: 2000-11-11
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Bill Clinton, in his weekly radio address, talks about the results of Tuesday's Presidential Election and the pending court decisions over ballot recounts in Florida. He also announces he will be visiting Vietnam, the first U.S. President to do so since the end of the war.

Title: Interview of retired U.S. Army Colonel Lola Olsmith on her service in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm
Creator: Olsmith, Lola
Date: 2004-01-15
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: In an oral history interview, Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lola Olsmith talks about choosing to become a nurse, attending nursing school in Little Rock, Arkansas, joining the Army in 1967 and volunteering for duty in Vietnam. She says that after her basic training in San Antonio, she was sent directly to Vietnam and recalls the anxiety she felt as she flew into Saigon at midnight with 13 other nurses. Olsmith talks about her hospital duties in Vietnam, living in Quonset huts, taking care of Viet...
Show moreIn an oral history interview, Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lola Olsmith talks about choosing to become a nurse, attending nursing school in Little Rock, Arkansas, joining the Army in 1967 and volunteering for duty in Vietnam. She says that after her basic training in San Antonio, she was sent directly to Vietnam and recalls the anxiety she felt as she flew into Saigon at midnight with 13 other nurses. Olsmith talks about her hospital duties in Vietnam, living in Quonset huts, taking care of Viet Cong prisoners, her experiences during the February 1968 Tet Offensive, working in a recovery ward where patients often woke with missing limbs, and making medical visits to Vietnamese villages and orphanages. After her one year tour of duty in Vietnam, Olsmith says that she returned to the U.S., decided to make the Army her career, served in various duty stations around the country, went into the Army Reserves in 1979 as a Major, was reactivated in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm and finally retired from the Army in November of that year. Olsmith says her time in the service gave her a sense of confidence as well as a career. Olsmith is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart assisted by Carol A. Habgood.
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Title: Interview of Marcia Larsen on her experience working as a civilian employee in the U.S. Army Special Services in Asia
Creator: Larsen, Marcia Baer, 1942-
Date: 2007-02-06
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Marcia Baer Larsen, who studied art history and ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design, talks about using her training while working at foreign postings for the federal government, including service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. After graduating in 1964, Larsen says that she was hired by the Defense Department as a civilian Supervisory Recreation Specialist in the Special Services unit and was sent to Korea to run craft, recreation, and education programs for American...
Show moreMarcia Baer Larsen, who studied art history and ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design, talks about using her training while working at foreign postings for the federal government, including service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. After graduating in 1964, Larsen says that she was hired by the Defense Department as a civilian Supervisory Recreation Specialist in the Special Services unit and was sent to Korea to run craft, recreation, and education programs for American troops at an R&R center and also led tours of ancient Korean kiln sites. Larsen says that she was in Korea until 1968 and after two years back in the States was sent to Thailand as administrator of all in-country recreation facilities, including golf courses and recreation centers. Larsen talks about closing centers in Vietnam and Thailand and turning the facilities and equipment over to local government and tells a story of taking an unauthorized flight with a CIA unit into Phenom Phen, Cambodia and initially being refused permission to leave. Larsen says that she left Special Services when she married and later became Director of the Southwest Craft Center. Larsen is interviewed by Ruth Stewart and Patricia Martin.
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Title: Interview of Anne Noreen Bauer on her twenty-eight year career as an U.S. Army nurse
Creator: Bauer, Anne Noreen, 1915-2003
Date: 1985-06-20
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anne Noreen Bauer talks about her twenty-eight year career as an United States Army nurse. Bauer talks about enlisting in August 1942 at the age of twenty-seven, her training, early assignments at Fort Benjamin Harrison where she became head nurse and finally shipping out to Bombay, India on her way to Karachi with the 159th Station Hospital. Bauer remembers the voyage to India, having dinner with Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten, working with British...
Show moreRetired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anne Noreen Bauer talks about her twenty-eight year career as an United States Army nurse. Bauer talks about enlisting in August 1942 at the age of twenty-seven, her training, early assignments at Fort Benjamin Harrison where she became head nurse and finally shipping out to Bombay, India on her way to Karachi with the 159th Station Hospital. Bauer remembers the voyage to India, having dinner with Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten, working with British nurses, staff and civilians, taking over a convent to use as a hospital, and the many the diseases and injuries she treated. She also discusses her many post-war assignments which took her around the world and especially her efforts to establish hospitals in Vietnam and provide the local population with medical assistance. Bauer is interviewed by Jane Fore.
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Title: Interview of retired Colonel Eleanor M. Carey on her U.S. Air Force career and her service in the Vietnam War
Creator: Carey, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Margaret), 1928-2013
Date: 2007-03-26
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired Air Force Colonel Eleanor M. Carey talks about her youth and education in Pennsylvania, her long U.S. Air Force career and her service in the Vietnam War. After graduating from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Cary says that she joined the Air Force on October 19, 1955. She says that after basic and advanced training, she was first stationed in Beirut, Lebanon and later volunteered for duty in Vietnam when that war heated up. Cary talks about treating Vietnamese...
Show moreRetired Air Force Colonel Eleanor M. Carey talks about her youth and education in Pennsylvania, her long U.S. Air Force career and her service in the Vietnam War. After graduating from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Cary says that she joined the Air Force on October 19, 1955. She says that after basic and advanced training, she was first stationed in Beirut, Lebanon and later volunteered for duty in Vietnam when that war heated up. Cary talks about treating Vietnamese civilians as part of the military's MEDCAP program, her living conditions at U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay and working as a flight nurse in air-evac and taking causalities to medical care directly from the battlefield. Carey says that as a capstone to her Vietnam service, she escorted future Senator John McCain when he was released from a North Vietnamese prison in 1973. She says that she retired from the Air Force in October 1979 and that she "loved every minute" of her career. Carey is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart and Patricia Martin.
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Title: Interview of Kay Wellinger on her service in the American Red Cross in 1969 during the Vietnam War
Creator: Wellinger, Kay
Date: 1986-02-16
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Kay Wellinger talks about her service in the American Red Cross in 1969 during the Vietnam War. Wellinger says that she graduated from college in 1966 with a degree in Russian and began working for the CIA right out of school. Looking for more excitement, she joined the Red Cross and was sent to Saigon for two weeks of "supplemental recreation activity overseas" training. She talks about living in fire bases and planning recreational activities for the First Division and later the First Air...
Show moreKay Wellinger talks about her service in the American Red Cross in 1969 during the Vietnam War. Wellinger says that she graduated from college in 1966 with a degree in Russian and began working for the CIA right out of school. Looking for more excitement, she joined the Red Cross and was sent to Saigon for two weeks of "supplemental recreation activity overseas" training. She talks about living in fire bases and planning recreational activities for the First Division and later the First Air Cavalry, living under enemy fire in bunkers, being housed and fed right with the troops, receiving hazardous duty pay and constantly being afraid for her life. She says she left Vietnam in October 1969, resigned from the Red Cross and was married that November. Welllinger also says she never heard any complaints from the troops about serving while she was in Vietnam and that when she came home she never experienced any negative fallout from people involved in the antiwar movement. Wellinger is interviewed by Virginia E. Emrich.
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Title: Interview of retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Barbara Pratt-LeMahieu on her career in the military
Creator: Pratt-LeMahieu, Barbara, 1930-2007
Date: 2004-01-14
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Barbara Pratt-LeMahieu talks about her childhood in Salem, Massachusetts and her career in the U.S. Air Force which included service during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Pratt-LeMahieu says that she enlisted in 1948, took basic and administrative training in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and later worked as secretary for the Strategic Air Command in Colorado Springs and as a secretary at March AFB in California during the Korean War. After officer candidate...
Show moreRetired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Barbara Pratt-LeMahieu talks about her childhood in Salem, Massachusetts and her career in the U.S. Air Force which included service during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Pratt-LeMahieu says that she enlisted in 1948, took basic and administrative training in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and later worked as secretary for the Strategic Air Command in Colorado Springs and as a secretary at March AFB in California during the Korean War. After officer candidate school, she says that she was commissioned a second lieutenant and served as a public information administrator in Montana, until she volunteered to go to occupied Japan in 1955. In 1967, Pratt-Lemahieu says that she volunteered for service as a personnel services administrator in Vietnam and talks about hearing shelling on her way to work each day and her experiences during the Tet Offensive in 1968. Pratt-Lemahieu is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart and Carol Hapgood. She is assisted in recalling the details of her answers by her husband, Jim LaMahieu.
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Title: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Asia-Pacific Economoic Conference in Vietnam
Creator: Trump, Donald, 1946-
Date: 2017-11-10
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Asia-Pacific Economoic Conference in Vietnam. Trump reflects on the history of partnership between America and the Indo-Pacific region. He applauds the economic development of nations such as Vietnam, Singapore, and South Korea and criticizes the effectiveness of the World Trade Organization.

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