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Curtis Peoples Collection (573) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 5730000000
Collection
Curtis Peoples Collection
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
4.0
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 03 October 2003
Scope and Contents
Less than one linear foot of documents, and research material regarding Malaya, strategic hamlets, and Vietnamese villages from Peoples' Master of Arts thesis, camcorder video tapes, maps, books, negatives from a trip to Vietnam made by Peoples in 2000, 2 CD-ROMs (173rd Infantry Brigade Reunion and a recorded radio transmission from a helicopter in Vietnam in 1967), artifacts (shoulder insignia), and a program from 173rd Airborne Brigade Reunion in Ft. Worth, TX, in 2001. In addition, this collection contains of a record album consists of Bob Hopes' recorded comedic performances at U.S. military bases in Thailand, Guam, Okinawa, Vietnam, etc. It features Janis Paige, Anita Bryant, Jerry Colonna, as well as Jill St. John as a special guest star and Alex Dreier as a narrator. This album was recorded in 1964 and distributed by PYE RECORDS in 1965.
Series
35
Books
The Selling of the President, 1968 by Joe McGinniss
What You Should Know About Vietnam, edited by Joe Wing
Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The Pentagon Papers by Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E.W. Kenworthy and Fox Butterfield
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Five Women I Love: Bob Hope's Vietnam Story by Bob Hope
A Lonely Kind of War by Marshall Harrison
Introduction to Japanese Politics (2nd Ed.) by Louis D. Hayes
PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam by Douglas Pike
World Security: Challenges for a New Century (3rd Ed.) Michael T. Klare
Viet Cong by Douglas Pike
War, Peace, and the Viet Cong by Douglas Pike
Service Wife by Anonymous
Textual Empires by Mary Catherine Quilty
Viet Nam edited by Marvin E. Gettleman
Stories That Won't Go Away: Women in Vietnam 1959-1975 compiled by Betty J. Merrell and Priscilla Tunnell
Vietnam: A History in Documents edited by Gareth Porter
U.S. Army Area Handbook for Vietnam
Doctor Tom Dooley, My Story by Thomas A. Dooley
Out of the Night by William P. Mahedy
Volunteers, One and All by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Harold Nicholson: The War Years, Diaries and Letters 1939-1945 edited by Nigel Nicholson
Harold Nicholson: Diaries and Letters 1930-1939 edited by Nigel Nicholson
Malaysia edited by Wang Gungwu
A Modern History of Vietnam by Nguyen Phut Tan
The Long Long War by Richard L. Clutterbuck
The United States and Malaysia by James W. Gould
American Guerrilla in the Philippines by Ira Wolfert
The Army Wife by Nancy Shea (2 different editions)
The Air Force Wife by Nancy Shea
Anthony Eden: The Chronicles of a Career by Lewis Board
The Armed Forces Officer by the Department of Defense
Hog's Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA by Gayle L. Morrison, 2013
1
Photographs
Negatives, VAN003192 - VAN003681
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3
Maps
Section: 12 Drawer: 12 Folder: 1
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Eastern Thailand (National Geographic, 1964)
Southeast Asia (National Geographic, 1961)
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5
Museum Objects
573museum1121: 20 shoulder sleeve insignia for the 173rd Infantry Brigade (1967) and 20 contemporary 'Airborne' patches
573museum2905 173rd Airborne Brigade golf shirt
573museum2906 173rd Airborne Brigade baseball cap
573museum2907 17rd Airborne Brigade baseball cap
573museum2908 headband
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2
Electronic Media
573EM0018: 173 Airborne Brigade Reunion
573EM0182: Recorded radio transmissions of helicopter pilots in Vietnam, 1967
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2
Moving Images
573VI2047 - 573VI2049: VHSC tapes of strategic hamlet footage from Vietnam
573VI2335: Franciscan Charity: Helping the Orphan and the Cripple (2 DVDs)
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1
Audio
Record- Bob Hope On The Road To Vietnam 573AU2696
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  • Box 01: [Barcode: 01] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D115.1A ]]
  • Box 02: [Barcode: 02] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D115.1B ]]
  • Box 03: [Barcode: 03] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D115.1C ]]
  • Box 4: [Barcode: 4] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D115.1D ]]
  • Box 1
  • Folder 01
  • 173d Airborne Brigade Reunion 2001 Program
  • Folder 02
  • Article from Texas Monthly (October 2002) about Tim O'Brien
  • Instructions for Preparing and Submitting Theses and Dissertations, Texas Tech University (1998)
  • Series - RAND Corporation Publications
  • Folder 03
  • The VietnameseStrategic Hamlets: A Preliminary Report by John C. Donnell and Gerald C. Hickey (September 1962)
  • Organizing Counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1947-1960 by Riley Sunderland (September 1964)
  • Winning the Hearts and Minds of the People: Malaya, 1948-1960 by Riley Sunderland (September 1964)
  • Resettlement and Food Control in Malaya by Riley Sunderland (September 1964)
  • Series - Articles
  • Folder 04
  • Did John F. Kennedy Give the Order to Withdraw from Vietnam by James K. Galbraith
  • The Guerrilla War in Malaya by James E. Dougherty (from US Naval Institute Proceedings, September 1958)
  • Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830-1870: the Role of the French Medical Corps by Patricia M.E. Lorcin
  • The Tuan-Lien Local Defense System at the Time of the Taiping Rebellion by Philip Kuhn
  • Transnational Corporations and Asian Inequality by David Kowalewski
  • U.S. Hired Guns Criticized by William C. Selover (Christian Science Monitor)
  • Series - Book Excerpts
  • Folder 05
  • Chapter 4: FDR, Truman and Indochina (from Into the Dark House)
  • Entry (Vietnam - Krieg) in a German Encyclopedia (Sowjetsystem und Demokratische Gesellschaft: Eine Vergleichende Enzyklopadie)
  • Chapter 9: The Spoils of War: the Societe de Geographie de Paris and the French Empire, 1914-1919 by Michael Heffernan (from Geography and Imperialism: 1820-1940)
  • Chapter 10: Geopolitics, Cartography, and Geographic Knowledge: Envisioning Africa from Fascist Italy by David Atkinson (from Geography and Imperialism: 1820-1940)
  • Strategic Hamlets in South Vietnam: A Survey and a Comparison by Milton E. Osborne (1965)
  • Folder 06
  • Vietnamese Villages in Transition by Bernhard Dahm and Vincent J. Houben (1999)
  • A Study of the Emergency Regulations of Malaya, 1948-1960 by P.B.G. Waller (March 1967)
  • Folder 07
  • Hearings of the Subcommittee on United States Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress (Second Session) Part 6 (24-26 February 1970)
  • Series - Foreign Relations
  • Folder 08
  • Excerpts from Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume I
  • Folder 09
  • Excerpts from Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume III, Vietnam: June-December 1965
  • Folder 10
  • Foreign Relations, 1964-65
  • Series - Operations of US Marine Forces, Vietnam
  • Folder 11
  • August 1966
  • November 1966
  • September 1967
  • Strategic Hamlets
  • Folder 12
  • General Material
  • Folder 13
  • Coursework Papers (Texas Tech University)
  • Folder 14
  • Captured Documents
  • Folder 15
  • Department of State
  • Folder 16
  • District of Columbia Research
  • Folder 17
  • District of Columbia Research
  • Series - Research Material for British Malaya
  • Folder 18
  • Malaya - British Views
  • Folder 19
  • British Malaya
  • Folder 20
  • Malaya - Chinese Ethnicity
  • Folder 21
  • British Advisory Mission (Microfilm)
  • Folder 22
  • Hearts and Minds in Gurrilla Warfare: Malaya Emergency
  • Various Folders
  • Folder 23
  • Doi Moi (policy of economic renovation)
  • Folder 24
  • McNamara Paper Stuff
  • Box 2
  • Folder 01
  • Michigan State University
  • Folder 02
  • Agroville
  • Folder 03
  • Pacification General
  • Folder 04
  • Lessons from the Vietnam War: British View
  • Folder 05
  • Bibiliographies and Handwritten Notes
  • Folder 06
  • USOM (United States Operations Mission)
  • Folder 07
  • CIA / White House
  • Folder 08
  • Press Statements
  • Folder 09
  • Book Reviews
  • Folder 10
  • 173rd Airborne
  • Folder 11
  • General Publications
  • Folder 12
  • General Reports and Articles
  • Folder 13
  • Douglas Pike Collection - Unit 3: Statistics of the Vietnam War (from the finding aid)
  • Folder 14
  • South Vietnam
  • Folder 15
  • US Government
  • Folder 16
  • North Vietnam Third COuntry Forces
  • Folder 17
  • Third Country Forces in Vietnam
  • Box 3
  • Folder 01
  • Third Country Forces in Vietnam
  • Folder 02
  • Third Country Forces in Vietnam
  • Folder 03
  • 173rd Airborne Brigade Reunion
  • Folder 04
  • Thesis Material
  • Folder 05
  • Email Correspondence
  • Folder 06
  • Copyright Laws
  • Folder 07
  • Audio and Video Preservation Techniques Articles
  • Folder 08
  • Audio and Video Preservation Techniques Articles
  • Folder 09
  • Assorted Papers
  • Folder 10
  • Various articles and correspondence related to the 173rd Airborne Brigade
  • Box 4
  • Folder 01
  • The New Villages of Malaya: A Community Study by Ray Nyce, a thesis submitted to the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut (May 1962) (photocopy)
  • Oversized poem titled Dare to Hope by David A. Gee, 1995
Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=5730000000
Citation
Curtis Peoples Collection (573) Finding Aid, Curtis Peoples Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=5730000000, Accessed 09 Feb 2026.
Pub Credit Line
5730000000, Curtis Peoples Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
Added: 02 Oct 2003 [Updated: 12 Sep 2025]

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