Scope and Contents

Contains information on terrorism, war crimes, atrocity charges, resultant court-martials. Covers US, RVN, PAVN, and ROK atrocity reports. Sub-section on My Lai massacre. This section consists of printed materials that examine the role of terrorism and crime during the Vietnam Conflict. The first part of the section examines general war atrocities while the second part of the section focuses on the My Lai Massacre.

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.