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 Finding Aid: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 12 - Chronology of Vietnam and the Conflict Item Number: 2400000000

Pike Collection
Location: D021.4C


Scope & Content:

  • There are five linear feet in Unit 12. The original collection contained 16 boxes. Through the course of processing, two groups of material were separated and defined as collections: The Current News and the Saigon Press Review. Finding Aids for each are available. The material in this collection range from 258 B.C. to 1989. Most of the material contains information for the period 1965-1975. The material is in good to fair condition. Unit 12, Chronology of Vietnam and the Conflict, attempts to chronicle the major events relating to Vietnam in its history and during the First and Second Indochina Wars. Most of the material comes from published chronologies that appear at the end of books, in journals, or newspaper articles. There is also some United States, South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese government publications of chronologies.

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
11
258 B.C. - 1946
2
1947-1954
3
1955-1960
4
1961-1964
5
General, January-March 1965
6
April-June 1965
7
July-September 1965
8
October-December 1965
9
General, January-March 1966
10
April-June 1966
11
July-September 1966
12
October-December 1966
13
General (part 1) 1967
14
General (part 2) 1967
15
1967
16
General 1968
17
January-June 1968
18
July-September 1968
19
October-December 1968
20
General 1969
21
January-March 1969
22
April-June 1969
21
July-September 1969
2
October-December 1969
3
General 1970
4
January-March 1970
5
April-June 1970
6
July-September 1970
7
October-December 1970
8
General 1971
9
January-March 1971
10
April-June 1971
11
July-August 1971
12
September 1971
13
October-November 1971
14
December 1971
15
General 1972
16
January 1972
31
February 1972
2
March 1972
3
April (part 1) 1972
4
April (part 2) 1972
5
May (part 1) 1972
6
May (part 2) 1972
7
June (part 1) 1972
8
June (part 2) 1972
9
July (part 1) 1972
10
July (part 2) 1972
11
August (part 1) 1972
12
August (part 2) 1972
13
September 1972
14
October 1972
15
November 1972
16
December 1972
41
January-March 1973
2
April-June 1973
3
July-September 1973
4
October-December 1973
5
General, January-February 1974
6
March 1974
7
April 1974
8
May 1974
9
June 1974
10
July 1974
11
August 1974
12
September-December 1974
13
General 1975
14
January-June 1975
15
July-December 1975
16
1976+
17
Hanoi
18
Hanoi
51
Cambodia and Laos
2
Specialized Topics
3
Specialized Topics
4
Overview of the Period
5
Overview of the Period
6
Overview of the Period
7
Overview of the Period
8
Overview of the Period
9
Overview of the Period
10
Overview of the Period
11
Overview of the Period
12
Pentagon Papers
13
Pentagon Papers
14
University of Plano Chronology
15
Bloc Countries

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