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From: Lien Huong Fiedler <lfie@loc.gov>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Lien Huong Fiedler <lfie@loc.gov>, vsg@u.washington.edu
Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Dear List,
Ho Chi Minh sent a letter, on December 23, 1966, to the American people to mark the New Year. He accused the US of using hazardous gas, chemical agents and napalm and steel-pellet bombs to destroy villages, forests and mountains in Vietnam and kill Vietnamese people.
Is it possible to find this letter in the Internet resources? [I could not find it] A reader at the Library of Congress read this letter at the Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hanoi, and wants to have a copy of this letter.
Many thanks,
Lien Huong Fiedler
Lien-Huong Fiedler
Southeast Asia Reference Specialist
Asian Division, Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540-4810
Phone: (202)-707-5720
Fax: (202)-707-1724
Email: lfie@loc.gov
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From: ryan nelson <sociolgst@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM
I was not able to find the December 23, 1966 letter. Sorry. However, I did track down Bac Ho letter written to "his excellency Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson" no more than two months later. No references to the new year, but he does accuse the U.S. of war crimes, and of using "barbarous methods of warfare, such as napalm, toxic chemicals and gases, to massacre our compatriots, destroy crops, and raze villages to the ground."
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/documents/ho.chi.minh.letter/
Not the letter you're looking for. Might be of some help.
Peace in Viet Nam
Ryan Nelson
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From: Maxner, Steve <steve.maxner@ttu.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Dear Lien Huong:
Attached is a copy. It is Item Number 2130711030 in our Virtual Vietnam
Archive (http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/redirects/vva.htm).
You can search for it online at the previous website by entering the
Item number as a keyword. Only this item will be returned.
The complete citation information is below.
Best regards,
Steve
Stephen Maxner, Ph.D.
Director
The Vietnam Center
The Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
Special Collections Library Room 108
15th and Detroit
Lubbock, TX 79409-1041
Phone: 806-742-9010
Fax: 806-742-0496
Email: steve.maxner@ttu.edu
Website: www.vietnam.ttu.edu
CITATION:
Item Number: 2130711030 (Record #: 141388)
Document Title: Agianst U.S. Aggression For National Salvation - Message
To The American People By Ho Chi Minh (From the Foreign Languages
Publishing House) - December 23, 1966
Language/Translation: English
Document Pages: 2
Date: 23 December 1966
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 02 - Military Operations
Media Type: Document (.pdf)
Physical Location: Box #: 07, Folder #: 11; Collection Location(s)
Full Text: OCR text of this document is available. Note that this text
is not edited. See the Help section for more information.
Citation: Agianst U.S. Aggression For National Salvation - Message To
The American People By Ho Chi Minh (From the Foreign Languages
Publishing House), 23 December 1966, Folder 11, Box 07, Douglas Pike
Collection: Unit 02 - Military Operations, The Vietnam Archive, Texas
Tech University.
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From: Maxner, Steve <steve.maxner@ttu.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Hello everyone:
After I sent that last message, I realized that I let pass by a great
"teach them how to fish" opportunity.
Anyone could have found the document above by following three easy
steps:
1. Visit Virtual Archive at TTU:
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/redirects/vva.htm
2. Enter Ho Chi Minh as keyword
3. Enter 12/23/1966 as a date
Only 7 items currently come back. The correct document is at the top of
the list. This is how I found it.
I say "currently" because we add about 20K pages a month so more might
turn up in future searches.
Cheers,
Steve
Stephen Maxner, Ph.D.
Director
The Vietnam Center
The Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
Special Collections Library Room 108
15th and Detroit
Lubbock, TX 79409-1041
Phone: 806-742-9010
Fax: 806-742-0496
Email: steve.maxner@ttu.edu
Website: www.vietnam.ttu.edu
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From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Thanks, Steve, the Vietnam Center's virtual archive is a great online resource. I notice from the citation of the first document retrieved in this search, the letter was apparently published in the following book which I found in our library catalog:
Author Ho Chi Minh, 1890-1969.
Title Against U.S. aggression for national salvation.
Publisher Hanoi, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1967.
Description 152 p. port. 19 cm.
Language English
call number DS557.A635 H6
- Steve Denney
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From: Lien Huong Fiedler <lfie@loc.gov>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Lien Huong Fiedler <lfie@loc.gov>, steve.maxner@ttu.edu, vsg@u.washington.edu
Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:03 AM
Dear Steve,
Thanks for the attached letter by Ho Chi Minh. I should have thought of searching The Vietnam Archive of Texas Tech University yesterday when I received this request from our reader. I will try to "fish" this letter again using the Archive search page.
Also my appreciation to Steve Denney and Ryan Nelson.
Regards,
Lien Huong
Lien-Huong Fiedler
Southeast Asia Reference Specialist
Asian Division, Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540-4810
Phone: (202)-707-5720
Fax: (202)-707-1724
Email: lfie@loc.gov
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From: Maxner, Steve <steve.maxner@ttu.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Steve:
Thanks. Yes, we have the same. As you know, Doug Pike copied many
materials such as this and sorted them by author, subject, etc... for
his manuscript collection and the Vietnam War on Microfilm Project.
Best regards,
Steve
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