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 Finding Aid: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Legal and Legislative Item Number: 2180000000

Pike Collection
Location: Math Stacks 3


Scope & Content:

  • The role of the US Congress in the war. Includes legislative debates, appropriations, committee hearings, texts of laws governing the war, etc. This section examines the role of Congress during the conflict. Topic included in the section are debates on the conflict and appropriation , committee hearings, and activities of Congress members regarding the war.

Biographical Note:

  • 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.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
481
Legislative (General Literature), 1949-1955
2
Legislative (General Literature), 1956
3
Legislative (General Literature), 1959
4
Legislative (General Literature), 1959
5
Legislative (General Literature), 1961-1964
6
Legislative (Clippings), 1963-1964
7
Legislative (General Literature), Overview 1965
8
Legislative (General Literature), January-April 1965
9
Legislative (General Literature), May-June 1965
10
Legislative (General Literature), August-December 1965
11
Legislative (Clippings), 1965
12
Legislative (General Literature), Overview 1966
13
Legislative (Clippings), Over 1966
14
Legislative (General Literature), January 1966
15
Legislative (General Literature), February-June 1966
16
Legislative (Clippings), January-June 1966
17
Legislative (General Literature), July-December 1966
18
Legislative (Clippings), July-December 1966
19
Legislative (General Literature), January-April 1967
491
Legislative (General Literature), May-December 1967
2
Legislative (Clippings), 1967
3
Legislative (General Literature), Overview 1968
4
Legislative (General Literature), 1968
5
Legislative (Clippings), 1968
6
Legislative (Clippings), Overview 1969
7
Legislative (General Literature), January-June 1968
8
Legislative (General Literature), July-December 1968
9
Legislative (Clippings), 1969
10
Legislative (General Literature), Overview 1970
11
Legislative (General Literature), January-April 1970
12
Legislative (General Literature), May 1970
13
Legislative (Clippings), January-May 1970
14
Legislative (General Literature), June-July 1970
15
Legislative (General Literature), June-July 1970
501
Legislative (General Literature), August-December 1970
2
Legislative (Clippings), August-December 1970
3
Legislative (General Literature), January-April 1971
4
Legislative (General Literature), May 1971
5
Legislative (General Literature), June 1971
6
Legislative (General Literature), July-December 1971
7
Legislative (Clippings), 1971
8
Legislative (General Literature), Overview 1972
9
Legislative (General Literature), January-June 1972
10
Legislative (Clippings), January-June 1972
11
Legislative (General Literature), July-December 1972
12
Legislative (Clippings), July-December 1972
13
Legislative (General Literature), January-March 1973
14
Legislative (Clippings), January-March 1973
511
Legislative (General Literature), April-June 1973
2
Legislative (Clippings), April-June 1973
3
Legislative (General Literature), July-December 1973
4
Legislative (Clippings), July-December 1973
5
Legislative (General Literature), January-April 1974
6
Legislative (Clippings), January-April 1974
7
Legislative (General Literature), May-July 1974
8
Legislative (Clippings), May-July 1974
9
Legislative (General Literature), August-December 1974
10
Legislative (Clippings), August-December 1974
11
Legislative (General Literature), Overview 1975
12
Legislative (General Literature), January-February 1975
13
Legislative (Clippings), January-February 1975
14
Legislative (General Literature), March-April 1975
15
Legislative (Clippings), March 1975
521
Legislative (Clippings), April 1975
2
Legislative (General Literature), June-December 1975
3
Legislative (Clippings), June-December 1975
4
Legislative (General Literature), 1976-1983
5
Legislative (General Literature), 1984-1994
6
Legislative (Clippings), 1976-1994

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