American Women — Vietnam conflict

  • Washington report-June 24, 1971: Kate Webb at the National Press Club

    Kate Webb (1943-2007), Australian foreign correspondent for United Press International who was captured by North Vietnamese troops in Cambodia in 1971, delivers a speech to the National Press Club.

  • Just you and me / Joan Baez ; introduced by Thomas Trutner.

    Joan Baez (Harris) addresses members of Pi Chi, a youth organization at Piedmont Community Church in the East Bay. In her speech, Baez points out the evils of the Vietnam War and addresses the tactic of nonviolence resistance. The preceding week, the group had heard Dr. John Hadsel deliver a talk entitled “The Just War”…

  • Parents against the draft / interviews by Lou Hartman

    Lou Hartman talks with a psychiatrist, an electrical engineer, a teacher in a medical school, a housewife, and a professor of economics concerning their experiences in the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center, growing out of their arrests at the Oakland Induction Center, where they sat in the doorway to demonstrate their opposition to the draft and…

  • Nikki Bridges interviewed by Sidney Roger

    In this recording, Sidney Roger interviews the wife of labor leader Harry Bridges, Nikki Bridges, Bay Area chairwoman of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, a coalition of women and organizations formed to go to Washington on January 15, 1968 to present their petition to redress grievances against Congress for the continuation of the Vietnam war. Roger…

  • Madame Nhu at the University of California

    MADAME NHU AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), popularly known as Madame Nhu, wife of South Vietnamese Premier and de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, speaks to students at U.C. Berkeley. In this recording, we hear an introduction from Professor Robert…

  • Fading rhythms in a fading land

    Two programs that focus on American attitudes towards the Vietnam War, based on Gloria Emerson’s book “Winners and losers: battles, retreats, gains, losses, and ruins from a long war” (Random House, 1976). Emerson first visited Vietnam in 1956 and returned as a NY Times correspondent in 1970, later resigning from the Times and joining the…

  • Vietnam : a reporter remembers / Gloria Emerson ; interviewed by Nick Egleson.

    New York Times reporter discusses her experiences covering the Vietnam conflict. Gloria Emerson (1929-2004), who covered the war in Vietnam for the “New York Times” from early 1970 to early 1972, talks with Nick Egleson about her experiences and her conclusions. Ms. Emerson is the only reporter besides Pacifica’s Judy Coburn to have her credentials…

  • Washington report-June 23, 1971: Government operations hearings

    Excerpts from June 23, 1971 Congressional hearings on the subject of government operations. Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg is questioned by Ogden Reid, Representative from New York, and Pete McCloskey, Representative from California, about the extent of government operations around the world. Produced by Margot Adler.

  • Washington report-June 28, 1971: War prisoners / Shirley Culbertson and Mrs. Mitch Jones

    Bob Kuttner and Margot Adler interview Mrs. Mitch Jones and Shirley Culbertson, wife and sister of a prisoner of war, and Mia Nahon, who discuss their relations to the League of Families and their efforts to end the Vietnam War and get prisoners of war released.

  • Washington report-September 13, 1971: Corporate reponsibility

    Part 1: Ralph Nader delivers a speech on Volkswagens; Part 2: Donna Shore of the Committee of Responsibility, an organization which uncovers corporations who betray the public trust, discusses her recent trip to Vietnam. Produced by Margot Adler.