Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive

News and Updates

Author: Justin Saffell

  • The Vietnam Center and Archive is now on Twitter

    The Vietnam Center and Archive is now on Twitter at http://twitter.com/vietnamTTU.  Keep up with VNCA news, updates from events, and more right in your Twitter feed.  If you already have a Twitter account, go to http://twitter.com/vietnamTTU and click “follow.”

     

  • Happy Independence Day!

    Happy Independence Day from the Vietnam Center and Archive, and thank you to all of those who have worked to preserve our freedom!

    US Navy In-shore Patrol Craft on the Bo De River, Republic of Vietnam (undated) [permalink]

  • New Vietnam Center and Archive Exhibits on the Texas Tech Campus

    Y Bham Enuol was a Rhade’ leader and founder of FULRO. He fought for Montagnard rights in Vietnam and Cambodia and was executed by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge in 1975. He is shown here smoking a hand-carved pipe.

    The Vietnam Center and Archive is pleased to announce two new exhibits on the Texas Tech Campus:

    The Montagnards of Vietnam exhibit is located in the Cornelli Globe Rotunda of the Special Collections Library and will be on display through the remainder of 2011.  The Montagnards are an indigenous people native to the Central Highlands of Vietnam and are ethnically distinct from the Vietnamese.  During the Vietnam War many of the Montagnards fought alongside the Americans, particularly with US Special Forces.  This exhibit displays many unique artifacts of Montagnard culture and focuses on the collection of anthropologist Dr. Gerald Hickey.

    The Vietnam Center and Archive exhibit is located in the Student Union Building behind the Allen Theatre, and will be on display through July 14th.  This exhibit features  a variety of items from the Archive’s collections, representing a small sampling of the selection of resources available through the Center and Archive.

    We hope that if you are on campus you will be able to take a moment to see these great exhibits.

     

  • July 4th, 2011

    AH-1G Cobra Attack Helicopter (serial: 67-15532)

    The Vietnam Center and Archive will be closed on Monday, July 4th. 

    For those of you in Lubbock and the South Plains planning on attending the 4th on Broadway parade, be sure to watch for our AH-1G Cobra Attack Helicopter, which will be pulled in the parade by oral historian Dr. Kelly Crager, and accompanied by Cub Scout Troop 511.

    AH-1G Cobra Attack Helicopter, Chuck Carlock Collection

    Lubbock’s 2011 4th on Broadway Celebration

     

  • Staff Departure – Jason Stewart

    Oral historian Jason Stewart will be leaving the Vietnam Archive on July 15, 2011, to pursue a teaching career in Mississippi. Jason has been with us for nearly three years, and we will certainly miss his hard work and devotion to the mission of the archive. Jason has been a strong advocate for America’s Vietnam veterans, and we greatly appreciate all he has done to help record their history. Please join us in wishing Jason and his family the absolute best in this transition and in all their future endeavors.

  • Latest Issue of the Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter Available Online

    The Spring 2011 issue of the Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter is now available online.  This issue contains articles on many of the Vietnam Center and Archive events held this spring, including our 3rd annual Film Festival, the first half of the 2011 Guest Lecture Series, and the 7th Triennial Vietnam Symposium, as well as a special rememberance of DaNita Buckley.

    If you would like to receive a full color printed version of this newsletter in your mailbox, please consider becoming a friend of the Vietnam Center.  Membership information can be found on our Firends of the Vietnam Center webpage.

    Links:

    Newsletters: http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/friends/newsletters.php

    Membership Information: http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/friends/

  • National Archives News

    In June 1971 the New York Times published the “Pentagon Papers,” officially titled the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Taskforce.  The release of these documents had a profound effect on American public opinion regarding the war, and has provided historians with an invaluable look at US policy making with regards to the Vietnam War.  Today, 40 years after the NYT publication, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the entire official Report, including 2,300 pages of previously undisclosed material not included in the Senator Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers.  Hardcopies of the records will be available at the following locations: the National Archives facility at College Park, MD; the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, MA; the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, TX, and the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA.  The records are also available online in their entirety at http://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers/.For more information about the Pentagon Papers and the release of the records, see:

    Also this week, Vietnam Center and Archive Director Stephen Maxner will accompany Mr. Tran Van Tuan, Minister of Home Affairs of Vietnam, and Dr. Vu Thi Minh Huong, the Director General of the State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam (the National Archivist of Vietnam), to Washington DC to meet with the Archivist of the United States, Mr. David Ferriero.  Following the meeting, the delegation and Dr. Maxner will return to Lubbock to discuss collaboration and joint projects between the Vietnam Center and Archive, the Vietnam State Records and Archives Department, and NARA.

  • Part 2 of Local PBS Show on the Center and Archive

    Part two of the local PBS channel’s “Keeping it Local” series on the Vietnam Center and Archive can now be viewed online at http://www.ktxt.org/productions.asp or by clicking the play icon below. This segment focuses on Kim Phuc, “the girl in the photo” and the second speaker in the Vietnam Center and Archive’s 2011 Guest Lecture Series.

    KTXT’s complete interview with Kim Phuc can be viewed on their YouTube page – http://www.youtube.com/ktxtdt

  • Local PBS show features the Vietnam Center and Archive

    This week the Texas Tech University PBS station, KTXT, broadcast the first of two shows on the Vietnam Center and Archive, part of their “Keeping it Local” series. This segment can be viewed online at http://www.ktxt.org/productions.asp, or by clicking the play icon below.

    Part two will air on KTXT next Thursday evening and will feature the recent lecture by Kim Phuc, part of the Vietnam Center and Archive’s 2011 Guest Lecture Series.

  • Reminder: LeAnn Thieman Free Lecture This Thursday

    LeAnn Thieman, nurse, author, and participant in “Operation Babylift,” will speak this week as part of our 2011 Guest Lecture Series.  LeAnn’s lecture will be held on Thursday, May 12th at 7:00pm in the Lanier Auditorium of the Texas Tech University School of Law.  Admission is free and open to the public.  The lecture will be followed by a book signing in the auditorium atrium.

    The mission of the Vietnam Center and Archive Guest Lecture Series is to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of students, faculty, and the community at large by bringing distinguished individuals to campus for presentations on specific aspects of the Vietnam War, its lasting impact on American politics, society and culture, and on contemporary issues in Southeast Asia.

    This lecture series is funded in part by a generous grant from the Helen Jones Foundation.  For more information on the 2011 VNCA Guest Lecture Series or about LeAnn Thieman see http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/GLS.