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Vietnam Strategy Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Fun Travel Adventure

Date: 12 1968
Description: Cover of "Fun Travel Adventure," an underground newspaper, depicting a photomontage of soldiers at Iwo Jima with an oversized, purple flower replacing the ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ramparts Magazine Cover

Date: 04 1966
Description: Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Great Speckled Bird

Date: 01 08 1973
Description: Cover of "The Great Speckled Bird," an underground newspaper, featuring an illustration of a Frosted Flakes cereal box, pouring out atomic bombs on a Vietn...
Poster

Strike Him Down

Date: 02 1971
Description: Political propaganda poster featuring a red, white, and blue eagle being struck down from the sky, accompanied by the phrase: "Strike Him Down." The eagle...
Photograph

Army Recruiting Office

Date: 03 1966
Description: Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa...
Poster

Civil Disobedience Event in Washington, D.C.

Date: 09 1971
Description: Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ...
Poster

"Why The Bombing"

Date: 08 24 1971
Description: A special issue of the Madison Kaleidoscope which features poetry and an article about the bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Center located i...
Photograph

Cigarette Smoking in Vietnam

Date: 12 16 1968
Description: At Thuong Duc, South Vietnam, a U.S. Marine and a Vietnamese youth share a cigarette break. The UPI caption indicated that the boy acted as if he had been ...
Photograph

Soldiers Smoking

Date: 06 1962
Description: Two soldiers under the command of U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley in the delta region of Vietnam sitting on sandbags smoking cigarettes. The soldiers ...
Photograph

Father Hoa on the Canal

Date: 1961
Description: Father Augustin Nguyen lac Hoa, the fighting priest, sits in a boat on the canal between Binh Hung and Tan Hung Tay. Father Hoa is in uniform and holds a r...
Photograph

Vietnamese Soldier Smoking

Date: 1961
Description: Vietnamese soldier seated indoors on a chair smoking a cigarette. He holds a gun under his right arm. Other men sit behind him.
Photograph

Soldiers Using Radio in Vietnam

Date: 1965
Description: Six soldiers along a roadside in Vietnam. One soldier operates a radio while another writes. Other men sit on the other side of the road, and in the far ba...
Photograph

Chapelle Selfie

Date: 1962
Description: Dickie Chapelle self-portrait in Vietnam. A shot we would currently call a "selfie." She is outdoors and wears a hat and smokes a cigarette.
Photograph

Soldiers Reading a Map

Date: 1965
Description: View of five soldiers in Vietnam, some of whom are reading a map, and others smoking cigarettes.
Photograph

Soldiers Consulting a Map

Date: 11 1965
Description: A group of U.S. soldiers seated near a brick building in Vietnam consulting a map.

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