Resource Guide Pages
Agent Orange: Finding Aids
Finding Aids describe whole collections, usually including a box or folder level inventory of the documents. They are a good way to quickly find large caches of documents on a single subject. To find individual documents, search the Virtual Archive https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/ using the keywords suggested on the introduction page.
Below is a list of finding aids and collection descriptions organized by category. Click on Open Finding Aid to view the complete finding aid.
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General
- Collection #2652
- Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation Collection
- Collection Size: 550 ft.
- Approximately 550 linear feet of court documents; pleadings; court hearings and deposition transcripts; trial exhibits; government discovery documents; case law files; correspondence; memoranda; summaries; drafts; reports; studies; and internal communication created and/or used during the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation. Most of the materials in the collection appear to have been created or gathered by the Budd Larner Law Firm, who represented Defendant Thompson Chemicals Corporation. Materials of note include the defendants' motions, memoranda and exhibits for summary judgment based on the Government Contract Defense; Pretrial Orders 26, 33, 51 and 91; the settlement agreement and its drafts; the May 24, 1984 Plaintiffs' Conference; and the plaintiffs' and defendants' fairness briefs. (more)
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- Collection #088
- Larry Flanagan Collection (USOM/Office of Rural Affairs, Saigon)
- Collection Size: 6.5 ft.
- Over six linear feet of USOM documents, newspaper clippings, books, periodicals, and newsletters detail the economy and industry in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam war. Also included is material related to USARV training and refugee training abroad. These materials document Larry Flanagan's twent... (more)
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- Collection #1096
- Gamewardens of Vietnam Association Collection (Gamewardens of Vietnam Association)
- Collection Size: 3.25 ft.
- The Gamewardens of Vietnam Association Collection contains materials pertaining to the Gamewardens of Vietnam Association which was formed in 1968 to honor the men who served in Task Force 116 in Vietnam denying the Viet Cong the use of the inland waterways. It is divided into eleven series: Foundin... (more)
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- Collection #1127
- Garnett Bell Collection
- Collection Size: 75.1 ft.
- POW / MIA research material; National Vietnam Research Center Office Files; correspondence; Defense intelligence Agency documents; Foreign Broadcast Information Service documents; POW / MIA fact-books; Indochina monographs; Viet Cong / North Vietnamese Army glossaries; CICV documents; photocopied an... (more)
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- Collection #1508
- Anthony LaRusso Collection
- Slides, photographs, artifacts, newspapers and newspaper clippings, manuals, internet printouts, orders, certificates, and maps that document Anthony LaRusso's tour of duty as an advisor in Vietnam from 1963 to 1964. (more)
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- Collection #486
- Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 72 (Brooklyn, NY)
- Collection Size: 3 ft.
- Certificates, VVA Chapter/State Council newsletters, other newsletters, periodicals, and documents document the actions of the Vietnam Veterans of America Association, Chapter 72 (Brooklyn, NY). (more)
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Use/Spraying
- Collection #2652
- Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation Collection
- Collection Size: 550 ft.
- Approximately 550 linear feet of court documents; pleadings; court hearings and deposition transcripts; trial exhibits; government discovery documents; case law files; correspondence; memoranda; summaries; drafts; reports; studies; and internal communication created and/or used during the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation. Most of the materials in the collection appear to have been created or gathered by the Budd Larner Law Firm, who represented Defendant Thompson Chemicals Corporation. Materials of note include the defendants' motions, memoranda and exhibits for summary judgment based on the Government Contract Defense; Pretrial Orders 26, 33, 51 and 91; the settlement agreement and its drafts; the May 24, 1984 Plaintiffs' Conference; and the plaintiffs' and defendants' fairness briefs. (more)
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- Collection #076
- Richard Duckworth Collection (Ranch Hand Association Vietnam)
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of a VHS tape, documents and newspaper clippings document the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam during Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971. Documents originate from the 1960s up through the 1990s and include defense reports and various secondary articles on this issue. An articl... (more)
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- Collection #1683
- Bud Harton Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- DVD containing military history research including casualty lists, Operation Reports Lessons Learned, After Action Reports, Unit Histories and other military documents from the Korean War to the War on Terror. (more)
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- Collection #225
- Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Technology
- Collection Size: 3.5 ft.
- This series is broken into two sections. The first deals with technological developments such as helicopters, air power, riverine war technologies. The second deals with the subject of chemical and biological warfare including Agent Orange. This section cover the use of weapons systems during the Vi... (more)
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- Collection #252
- Paul Cecil Collection (Ranch Hand Association Vietnam)
- Collection Size: 7.5 ft.
- Approximately seven and a half linear feet of books, photographs, slides, museum objects, film, audio, periodicals, microfilm, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, journals, studies, oral history transcripts, and official military materials document a broad range of topics related to Operation Ra... (more)
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- Collection #679
- Roy Buchanan, Sr. Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- DD214, discharge papers, and correspondence about Agent Orange spraying in Vietnam document Roy Buchanan's service in the United States Air Force with the 12th Commando Squadron. (more)
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Effects on Vegetation
- Collection #2652
- Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation Collection
- Collection Size: 550 ft.
- Approximately 550 linear feet of court documents; pleadings; court hearings and deposition transcripts; trial exhibits; government discovery documents; case law files; correspondence; memoranda; summaries; drafts; reports; studies; and internal communication created and/or used during the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation. Most of the materials in the collection appear to have been created or gathered by the Budd Larner Law Firm, who represented Defendant Thompson Chemicals Corporation. Materials of note include the defendants' motions, memoranda and exhibits for summary judgment based on the Government Contract Defense; Pretrial Orders 26, 33, 51 and 91; the settlement agreement and its drafts; the May 24, 1984 Plaintiffs' Conference; and the plaintiffs' and defendants' fairness briefs. (more)
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- Collection #1636
- Terry J. DuBose Collection
- Collection Size: 2 ft.
- Posters, leaflets, books, newspapers, photographs, correspondence, artwork, emails, internet printouts, T-shirts, buttons, military administrative documents and photocopied FBI reports concerning Terry Dubose and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) document Dubose and his service as the coor... (more)
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Death from Agent Orange
- Collection #2652
- Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation Collection
- Collection Size: 550 ft.
- Approximately 550 linear feet of court documents; pleadings; court hearings and deposition transcripts; trial exhibits; government discovery documents; case law files; correspondence; memoranda; summaries; drafts; reports; studies; and internal communication created and/or used during the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation. Most of the materials in the collection appear to have been created or gathered by the Budd Larner Law Firm, who represented Defendant Thompson Chemicals Corporation. Materials of note include the defendants' motions, memoranda and exhibits for summary judgment based on the Government Contract Defense; Pretrial Orders 26, 33, 51 and 91; the settlement agreement and its drafts; the May 24, 1984 Plaintiffs' Conference; and the plaintiffs' and defendants' fairness briefs. (more)
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- Collection #1248
- Ruth Coder Fitzgerald Collection
- Collection Size: 2.0 ft.
- Approximately two linear feet of audio tapes, video tapes, DVDs, newsletters and periodicals, photographs, stickers, internet printouts, newspaper clippings and articles, correspondence, administrative documents, transcripts, statements for H.R. 3293, and other documents and reports detail the Vietn... (more)
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- Collection #140
- Carol Maxwell Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- One folder of poems and letters document Carol Maxwell's son's service in Vietnam, his death due to Agent Orange-related cancer in 1993, and her responses to both. Letters to her son are dated from the 1960s and correpondence to Dr. James Reckner and the poems are dated from the 1990s. (more)
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Exposure/Illness
- Collection #2652
- Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation Collection
- Collection Size: 550 ft.
- Approximately 550 linear feet of court documents; pleadings; court hearings and deposition transcripts; trial exhibits; government discovery documents; case law files; correspondence; memoranda; summaries; drafts; reports; studies; and internal communication created and/or used during the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation. Most of the materials in the collection appear to have been created or gathered by the Budd Larner Law Firm, who represented Defendant Thompson Chemicals Corporation. Materials of note include the defendants' motions, memoranda and exhibits for summary judgment based on the Government Contract Defense; Pretrial Orders 26, 33, 51 and 91; the settlement agreement and its drafts; the May 24, 1984 Plaintiffs' Conference; and the plaintiffs' and defendants' fairness briefs. (more)
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- Collection #1277
- Veterans Issues and Answers Collection
- Collection Size: 11.0 ft.
- Approximately eleven linear feet of 164 three-quarter inch U-Matic video tapes of the television program, entitled 'Veterans Issues and Answers', documents an array of veteran's issues. The videos are placed in the order in which they aired, October 27, 1991 through May 31, 1999, and include titles... (more)
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- Collection #1338
- Charles Anderson Collection
- Correspondence, certificates, pamphlets, newspapers, original and photocopied articles, original artwork, books, newsletters, periodicals, maps, artifacts, slides, and photographs document Charles Anderson's service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam and his subsequent career with the Center for Mi... (more)
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- Collection #1352
- Janice Josephine Carney Collection
- Collection Size: 0.3 ft.
- A VHS video - Straight Talk: Gays in the Military, a Compilation (April 4, 2004). A book, printed photographs, military documents and correspondence and newspaper articles documenting Janice J. Carney's military service in Vietnam as John Joseph Carney from July 1970 to July 1971. (more)
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- Collection #159
- Gerald Ney Collection
- Collection Size: 0.2 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of articles, documents, and transcripts document Gerald Ney's interest in various aspects of the Vietnam Conflict and veterans issues. Most of the materials date from 1999 and 2000. (more)
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- Collection #162
- Burch Collection (National Vietnam Veterans Coalition (NVVC) Collection)
- Collection Size: 7.5 ft.
- This collection contains the records of the National Vietnam Veterans Coalition (NVVC), a Washington, D.C.-based organization involved in advancing the causes of Vietnam veterans at the national level. The NVVC, founded in 1984, had 78 member organizations in the early 1990s which represented 325,00... (more)
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- Collection #1699
- First Infantry Division Collection
- Collection Size: 0.3 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of newsletters from the Vietnow Chapter in DuPage County and the Bridgehead Sentinel from the 1st Infantry Division detail both associations' events and interests. All materials date from the post-war period. (more)
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- Collection #1770
- Jimmy Dale Miller Collection
- Collection Size: 6.0 ft.
- Five linear feet of books, VHS tapes, audio cassettes, correspondence, maps, posters, poetry, postcards, photographs, brochures, bumper stickers, certificates, articles, Agent Orange reports, PTSD reports, and a T-shirt documenting Phyllis Miller Copus' work with the Friends of the Vietnam Veterans ... (more)
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- Collection #1960
- Gary Larsen Collection
- Collection Size: 1.0 ft.
- One and a half linear feet contain reports and articles covering a variety of topics including agricultural, economic, and rural developments in South Vietnam, the Hoa Hao Sect, Montagnard Tribal groups, Viet Cong Infrastructure, and Re-Education camps. (more)
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- Collection #239
- Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 11 - Monographs
- Collection Size: 12.0 ft.
- Unit 11, monographs, of the Douglas Pike Collection contains monographs covering a wide range of topics in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia. The finding aid for this collection is divided into two sections each organizing the collection in a different way. The first... (more)
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- Collection #329
- Vietnam Veterans of America - Vietnam Project
- Collection Size: 11.0 ft.
- Unit 11, monographs, of the Douglas Pike Collection contains monographs covering a wide range of topics in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia. The finding aid for this collection is divided into two sections each organizing the collection in a different way. The first... (more)
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- Collection #360
- Conrad Lutz Collection
- Collection Size: 0.5 ft.
- Half a linear foot of photographs, museum objects, military administrative documents, and newspaper articles document Corrado Rodolfo Lutz's service in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam Conflict. The bulk of the materials date from the war period, though some materials also date from the post-war pe... (more)
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- Collection #414
- George Claxton Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of nine 3.5 inch floppy disks and a CD-ROM copy contain a database of scientific studies related to the health and environmental effects of Agent Orange and dioxin. The information represents almost twenty years of the research and collection work of George Claxon. A lett... (more)
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- Collection #611
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Cases
- Collection Size: 1.5 ft.
- This sub-series is approximately 1.5 linear feet and contains information about court cases and the effects of Agent Orange. Also included are numerous journal articles and correspondence to and from Admiral Zumwalt related to the cases. The information ranges from the 1970s through the 1990s. (more)
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- Collection #612
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Coordinating Committee
- Collection Size: 3.0 ft.
- This sub-series contains the records of the Agent Orange Coordinating Committee (AOCC). The AOCC was comprised of representatives of various Veterans’ Organizations, under the leadership of Admiral Zumwalt. Its purpose was to coordinate efforts in raising public awareness regarding the Agent Orang... (more)
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- Collection #613
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Correspondence
- Collection Size: 1.0 ft.
- This sub-series is about 1 linear foot and is comprised of correspondence about the issue of Agent Orange not related to the other sub-series within the Agent Orange series. The correspondence is generally to and from Admiral Zumwalt. Much of the correspondence involves United Stated Government offi... (more)
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- Collection #614
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Hearings
- Collection Size: 1.0 ft.
- This sub-series is about 1 linear foot and contains information about United States Congressional hearings. This sub-series is comprised of hearing transcripts, articles, and correspondence. The hearings discuss the risk of dioxin. The Congressional Committees found in this sub-series are the House ... (more)
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- Collection #615
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Publications
- Collection Size: 3.5 ft.
- This sub-series contains approximately 3.5 linear feet of paper material. This series is comprised of articles from periodicals, newspapers, and journals, reports by various entities, position papers, conference and symposia materials, postal messages from combat development (during the Vietnam War... (more)
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- Collection #616
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Studies II
- Collection Size: 2.0 ft.
- The size of this sub-series is approximately 2 linear feet. This sub-series contains published studies about the varying effects of Agent Orange and the difference of opinion surrounding this controversial issue. The studies vary in size from full-length reports to article length discussions. The ... (more)
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- Collection #617
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Studies
- Collection Size: 5.0 ft.
- The size of this sub-series is approximately 5 linear feet. This sub-series contains published studies about the varying effects of Agent Orange and the difference of opinion surrounding this controversial issue. The studies vary in size from full-length reports to article length discussions. The ... (more)
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- Collection #618
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Subject Files
- Collection Size: 6.0 ft.
- This series is 6 linear feet. This series contains materials about Agent Orange from a wide array of sources, such as the Agent Orange Gray group, Australian Government, Institute of Medicine, conference materials, and The Vietnam Archive. This series also includes bibliographical materials and bo... (more)
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- Collection #622
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Organizations
- Collection Size: 3.0 ft.
- This series is 3 linear feet. This series is generally comprised of materials from various member organizations. Organizations in this series include: Alfalfa Club, Red Cross, National Indian Youth Leadership Project, The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, YMCA, Greenpeace, National Rural Cente... (more)
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- Collection #623
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: General Subject Files
- Collection Size: 18.0 ft.
- This series is approximately 18 linear feet of paper materials. The general subject files cover a wide array of subjects. Generally, this collection encompasses foreign relations, arms control, military issues, environmental concerns, trips, conferences, various individuals, Transway, and informat... (more)
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- Collection #625
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: General Manuscripts and Publications
- Collection Size: 3.0 ft.
- This series is 3 linear feet. This series contains manuscript materials from various authors. The manuscript material materials generally address military and strategic issues. Several folders contain materials about the Zumwalt books My Father, My Son and On Watch. This series also contains some ... (more)
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- Collection #629
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Research Publications
- Collection Size: 4.0 ft.
- This series contains many health studies about the effects of herbicides. These studies have been prepared by the United States Air Force, Veteran's Administration, United States General Accounting Office, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection agency, and numerous other institutions and in... (more)
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- Collection #633
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Vietnam Veterans Organizations
- Collection Size: 2.0 ft.
- This series is approximately 2 linear feet. The majority of this series is correspondence between Admiral Zumwalt and Vietnam veteran organizations. Some of the organizations are the Vietnam Veteran's Institute, Americans for Vietnam Veterans, American Legion, national Veteran's Legal Services, Swif... (more)
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- Collection #634
- Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Articles
- Collection Size: 1.5 ft.
- This sub-series is 1.5 linear feet and is comprised of articles about Agent Orange. The articles come from a variety of sources including newspapers, journals, and periodicals. The majority of the articles are from the 1980s and the 1990s. Some of the articles date back to the 1970s and the 1980s. (more)
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- Collection #850
- John Rowan Collection
- Collection Size: 11 ft.
- The collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of material dealing with the issue of homeless veterans, particularly Vietnam veterans in the New York-New Jersey area in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, audio cassettes, and official and photocopied... (more)
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Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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Texas Tech University, Box 41041, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
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