Scope and Contents

Information on the protest movements in the US and abroad, the NLF/DRV response through the Dich Van programs, relations between the New Left and Hanoi and analysis of the movement by participants. This section contains information on the domestic and international war protest movement. Topics include the New Left (Students for a Democratic Society, the 'New Mobe,' American Peace Councils, and the Committee on Non-Violent Action) as well as campus protests, teach-ins, peace marches and anti-war demonstrations. Also included are interviews with prominent anti-war figures and accounts of their trips to Hanoi. There is also information on the activities of draft resister and the provision of foreign sanctuaries for deserters. There is material on the North Vietnamese response to anti-war activities and their evaluations (Dich Van or Action Among the Enemy Program). Also included are the anti-war activities of Lord Bertrand Russell and his 'War Crimes Trials' held in Stockholm.

Biographical / Historical

Professor Pike was born in 1925. He served as a journalist in the Army during World War II (in the Pacific Theater of Operations) and during the Korean Conflict. He earned degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and American University. He served as an FSO in Taiwan, Korea, Lebanon, and Vietnam. In 1982 he began teaching at UC-Berkeley and in 1997 moved Texas Tech University. Professor Pike housed and supported the Collection until 1982 when he moved it to Berkeley. It remained there until 1992 when Berkeley considered discontinuing its support for the Indo-China Studies Project. After being approached by Professor Pike, Dr. James Reckner, Director of the Vietnam Center at Tech, and Dr. David Murrah, Assistant Director of Libraries for the Special Collections, worked together to bring the Collection to the Archive in 1994