Bombing Narratives
From: Shaun Malarney
Date: 2009/10/8
Dear List Members,
I was contacted by Dr. John Tirman at MIT who is searching for non-fiction
narratives written in English that recount the experience of American
bombing in North Vietnam. ...
Thank you.
Shaun Malarney
ICU
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From: Jason Gibbs
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Hanoi, Biography of A City by William S. Logan (University of Washington Press, 2000) quotes and cites a number accounts of the bombing in Hanoi. The cited works are mostly by Western journalists and diplomats living there at the time.
Jason Gibbs
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From: Judith Henchy
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Shaun,
This same question came to me via another source. I was thinking about translations of contemporary sources - perhaps in JPRS/FBIS/SWB, but also of the types of reports that were sent out by Hanoi press agencies and were picked up and reprinted by the numerous peace groups at the time as examples of US atrocities. I presume that some of this would be in the North Vietnam news service reports. I seem to recall looking at such things during my brief work with the Southeast Asia Resource Center at Berkeley, for instance. I'm not sure what happened to that archive in the end, however. I don't think it went to UCB, did it?
Judith
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From: Nhu Miller
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM
The Indochina Resource Center was founded in 1971 to inform the American people, legislators, and the media about the war in Indochina. The IRC also disseminated information about the countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam where U.S. military personnel were fighting or bombing. The IRC changed its name to the Southeast Asia Resource Center in 1976. In 1982 the organization was absorbed by Asia Research Center.
It is now at:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: (610) 328-8557 (Curator)
Fax: (610) 328-8544
Email: wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu (Curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
T.T. Nhu
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From: Kleinen, J.G.G.M.
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
For my work on coastal Nam Dinh, I used a number of declassified CIA reports (http://www.foia.cia.gov), translated documents (letters from home; diaries etc.) in the Texas archive and of course the better known eye witness reports by Salisbury, Fonda and others, including the reports by members of the Russell Tribunal.. The sources Judith just mentioned are also useful, especially when you can compare time and place.
JOHN
Dr. John Kleinen
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
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From: Steve Denney
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:55 PM
The Indochina Archive of UC Berkeley received much of the materials; part
of it came from a veterans group while Doug Pike was still here, the other
part came from Martha Winnacker a few years afterwards.
Steve Denney
library assistant, UC Berkeley
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From: Tobias RETTIG
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Dear Shaun,
If a film also counts as a narrative (though written on celluloid rather
than paper), then I would recommend 'The Little Girl from Hanoi' (Em be
Ha Noi), 1974, dir. Hai Ninh, script by Hoang Tich Chi and Vuong Dan
Hoan. It was shown at the Singapore Film Festival one or two years ago
and has English language subtitles.
The movie is discussed by Ngo Phuong Lan in her book (Modernity and
Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema, Yogyakarta: Netpac and Galangpress,
2007).
Best,
Tobias
School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
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From: <sdenney@library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:17 PM
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
I am not sure now how much of the material went to the UC Berkeley
Indochina Archive but we received a sizeable collection around 1995 from a
Vietnam veterans group which had been storing some of the materials, and
then more materials, about three file cabinets of mostly news clippings
from the period covered. The second batch was donated about ten years ago,
by Martha Winnacker of the IRC/SEARC
> Collection<http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/index.htm>
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From: Diane Fox
Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:47 AM
Yes, and that brings to mind "The Girls of Ngu Thuy Village" ("Nhung Co Gai Nguy Thuy", if I remember correctly -- and though I can't bring to mind the name of the director at the moment, surely someone out there can?) It is available to borrow from the Southeast Asia Center of the University of Washington.
Diane