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Joe Jordan Collection (119) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 1190000000
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
1.5
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 07 December 2001
Scope and Contents
Approximately one and a half linear feet of newsletters, periodicals, manuscripts, documents, newspapers articles and a study document Joe Jordan's involvement in the POW issue and his organization, the National Veterans POW Strike Force. Manuscripts include 'Dropping the Flag: An Inside View DPMO' by CDR Chip Beck, USNR (ret.) and a manuscript by Rob Blurton (Marine Corps). Other materials of note are newsletters from the National Veterans POW Strike Force, information on casualties, stolen Hanoi photographs of POW/MIAs and a study on United States policy toward the POW/MIA issue. All materials date from the post-war era.
Biographical / Historical
Joe Jordan is a native Texan active in POW/MIA issues and directs the National Vietnam POW Strike Force.
14
Serials
Periscope, XXI: 7 (1996)
Tin Tuc, #53, (November 1996)
U.S. Veteran: June 1992, July 1992, May/June 1993, October/November 1993, December 1993, November 25, 1994, December 1994-January 1995, February-March 1995, April 1995, May-June 1995, September 1995, October 1996
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4
Newsletters
Still Missing: April 1997, May 1997, June 1997

VietNow National Newsletter: 1986: 1st Quarter
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14
Newspapers
Bamboo Connection: 1983: March 11; 1985: September 25, October 14; 1986: February 4 (2 copies), July 15, August 19 (2 copies), October 13, December 17; 1987: March 11 (2 copies), June 17; 1988: May 19
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  • Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D043.5]]
  • Box 2: [Barcode: 2] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D043.5]]
  • Donated newsletter list [no date]
  • Manuscript Paper: Dropping the Flag: An Inside View DPMO by CDR Chip Beck, USNR (ret.), January 1997
  • Casualties information, March, 1988
  • Stolen Hanoi photos of POW/MIA's, June 2, 1994
  • Strike Force- Names list, 1993-95
  • Manuscript paper by Rob Blurton Marine Corp. 1979-83, Summer 1995
  • Miscellaneous News Articles [no date]
  • An Examination of U.S. Policy Toward POW/MIA's, May, 1991
  • Regimentation v. Democracy: A Study of Viet Cong's subversive activites in America!
  • Genocidal Massacre of Montagnard Protestants?
  • Printed copies of article from www.bostonherald.com called: Allies no more: Vietnamese war veterans protest Se. John Kerry's aid policy, by Christopher Cox. Also printed copies of emails from 2002.
  • Information articles regarding Vietnam
  • Information articles regarding John McCain
  • Letters to donor regard business and trade issues, t-shirt designs, memorial services
  • Articles regarding national security, military issues, book review, POW/MIA accounting
  • Articles regarding classified and confidential information, Uniques and Warless Strategy to Win in Asia , Operation Dragon Jaws, The Untapped Power of the Mass of Vietnamese People, CIA 11/15/1967 International Connections of US Peace Groups
  • Articles regarding John Kerry and Wesley Clark
  • Clippings from Stars & Stripes, 1962-1973
  • Message from Joe Jordan / National Vietnam POW Strike Force - 28 June & 2 July 1997

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1190000000

Citation
Joe Jordan Collection (119) Finding Aid, Joe Jordan Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1190000000, Accessed 02 Aug 2026.

Pub Credit Line
1190000000, Joe Jordan Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 06 Dec 2001 [Updated: 02 Feb 2022]