Evjue, William T.
Ewen, Stuart
Faculty Document
Fallaci, Oriana
Familiare, Anthony
Farrell, Michael
Fergusson, Robert G.
Festge, Otto
Fett, Colonel
Fidele, Sam
Finman, Ted
Finn, Elizabeth
First Infantry Division: Terry Allen, Sr., as commander of; as always going back for its men; area of operations of; arrives in Vietnam in October 1965; base at Lai Khe; Big Red One insignia of; ear-cutting incident; hot meals for troops of; rear headquarters at Di An; reliance on technology and equipment; Route 13 repaired by; song of; Vietnamese opinion of; in Westmoreland’s victory scenario. See also Black Lions
First Viet Cong Regiment: in ambush of Black Lions; designations of; First Infantry known by; in Long Nguyen Secret Zone; mission of summer and fall 1967; movements of
Fisher, Bert
Fitzgerald, Paul
Fleming, Robben W.: on calling police in; and Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; Hanson’s portrait of; leaves Wisconsin; and university draft policy “fog of war,”
Ford, Gerald R.
Fortas, Abe
Fowler, John
Fox, John
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
Freud, Sigmund
Fried, Joseph
Fulbright, J. W.
Furgurson, Ernest B.
Gabriner, Bob
Gabriner, Vicki: arrest of; and civil rights movement; cutting Stielstra’s hair; as Miss “Sifting and Winnowing,”; released from custody
Gallagher, Michael (Peewee)
Garcia, Arturo
Garcia, Melesso
Garrow, David J.
Gaumnitz, Erwin A.
Gavin, James M.
Gellhorn, Martha
Genack, Judy
General John Pope (ship)
Geneva accords of 1954
George, Jackie
George, Jim: on Allen; as Alpha Company commander; arrives in Vietnam; company barber as VC informant; en route to Vietnam; in evacuation hospital; at Fort Lewis; on Hay and Allen; at Lai Khe; letters home after battle; in operation of October 15; in operation of October 17; recovery from the battlefield; as traumatized by October 17
Gerstacker, Carl A.
Giannico, Paul
Giap, Vo Nguyen
Gilbertson, Verland
Gillard, Robert
Gilliam, Jim
Ginsberg, Allen
Glenn, Russell
Goldberg, Harvey
Goldman, David
Gomez, Doc
Goodman, Jerrilyn
Goodman, Steve: examining weapons from battlefield; on food for U.S. troops; at Lai Khe; in network of Black Lions veterans; in operation of October 17; in return to battlefield on October 17
Goodwin, Everett
Grady, Tom: as Alpha Company executive officer; after battle of October 17; en route to Vietnam; identifying bodies; as intelligence officer; on letters home after battle; letters to dead soldiers’ families; and Menetrey; in network of Black Lions veterans; and personal effects of dead soldiers; returns to Lai Khe; in return to battlefield on October 17; Woodard turns himself in to Graff, Henry
Green Berets
Greenfield, Jeff
Gribble, Ray
Grider, Edward J.
Griego, Santiago
Gritsmacher, Jerry
Gromyko, Andrei
Grosso, Gerard
Group
Gruening, Ernest
guerrilla theater
Guevara, Che
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Hadden, James
Halberstam, David
Halliday, David
Hammond, William M.
H and I (harassing and interdiction) fire Hanson, Ralph; and campus drug use as defendant in Soglin’s lawsuit; and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; Kauffman meeting daily with; Soglin and; Swacker and
Hargrove, Olin
Harrington, Fred Harvey: and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; and Dow Chemical recruiting; and draft protest; as historian; on Kauffman; Leonard and; on out-of-state students; radicals’ anger at; on student protests
Harrington, Jack
Harry, Deborah
Hartwig, Bob
Harvard University
Haslach, Henry
Hawley, James P.
Hay, John Hancock, Jr.; Allen blamed for debacle by; Allen named battalion commander by; on battle of October 17 as not an ambush; Costello given Silver Star by; on First Division going back for its men; George visited in hospital by; given Allen Sr.’s combat booklets; at MACV headquarters on October 17; at memorial service; on mortar use; as under pressure; Silver Star for; with Westmoreland
Hay, William H.
Hayden, Tom
helicopters
Helms, Richard
Hendershot, William L. (Curly); recruiting for Dow at UW
Henriques, Darryl
Hershey, Lewis Blaine
Hickey, Robert
Hinger, Tom (Doc): after battle of October 17; at Bien Hoa replacement center; Cash interviewing; and Holleder; identifying bodies; interviewed by the press; letter home after battle; in network of Black Lions veterans; in operation of October 17; returns to Lai Khe; in return to battlefield on October 17; Silver Star for; travels to Vietnam
hippies
Hiroshima
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hodges, Donnie
Hoffman, Abbie
Hoffman, Bert
Holden, Arthur
Holden, Joan
Holleder, Donald (Holly); Blaik’s homage to; Cash’s investigation into death of death of; Hinger attempts to help; Hinger network paying homage to; identifying body of; newspaper reports of death of; observing mission of October 17; in return to battlefield on October 17; and Shelton; in television production on athletes killed in battle; Welch meets with
Hope, Bob
Horst, Kyle
Howard, Robert E.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Hung, Sau
Hunter, John Patrick
Hylton, Alvin R.
ice cream plants
Ichord, Richard H.
Illinois, University of
Iron Triangle
Jagielo, Allen
Jamison, P. Evangeline
Jennings, Peter
Jensen, Merrill
Jensen, Robert
Johnson, Harold K.
Johnson, Lady Bird
Johnson, Lynda Bird
Johnson, Lyndon B.: antiwar protests as obsession of; budget problems of; considers not running again; declines renomination; and Dow Chemical Company; on draft resistance; “Dump Johnson” movement; escalates war in 1965; Great Society of; Gulf of Tonkin resolution; “guns and butter” policy of; “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?,”; letter of condolence for Terry Allen; likeness on homecoming float; Manning interview with; orders more troops to Vietnam; pessimism about the war; primary election opposition to; on reforms needed by Thieu; Souvanna Phouma meets with; at Tuesday lunch October 17; Vietnam War as dilemma for; war council of October 18 and Washington demonstration of October 1967
Johnson, Tom
Johnson, Willie C.: dying from his wounds; favorite song of; in operation of October 17
Jones, Bernard Francis
Jones, James C.
Jones, Richard
Julian, Percy: and Dow Chemical demonstration of October 1967; as the lawyer for student demonstrators; and restraining order on disciplining protesters; in Soglin’s suit against Kauffman; state senators’ plan to embarrass; Stielstra represented by
Kaplan, Jack T.
Kaplan, William Karnow, Stanley
Kasik, Jim: in operation of October 15; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; recovering bodies; in return to battlefield on October 17; VC base camp found by
Kastenmeier
, Robert W.
Katzenbach, Nicholas
Kauffman, Joseph F.; and Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; “Let Joe handle it,”; liberalism of; Mime Troupe and; radicals’ anger at; on Stark; and student drug use
Kay, Lieutenant
Keene, David A.
Kellogg, Blake
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Key, Roy
killing: body counts; kill ratio; light-hearted terms for; soldiers en route to Vietnam thinking about
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirkpatrick, Fred
Kissinger, Henry
Knops, Mark
Knowles, Warren P.
Koch, Don
Korten, Patrick
Kraft, Joe
Krasny, Michael
Krische, John D.
Ky, Nguyen Cao
LaFollette, Bronson
LaFollette, Robert M., Jr.
Lai Khe: as First Infantry base; French rubber plantation near; ice cream plant at; location of, Viet Cong mortar attacks on; villagers supporting Viet Cong; after the war
Laird, Melvin
Lam, Nguyen Van
Lancaster, Jerry
Landon, Gregory; arrives in Vietnam; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; evacuation from battlefield; at Fort Lewis; at Lai Khe; letters home after battle; at Ninety-third Evacuation Hospital; in operation of October 17; in operations of early October; at Thirty-sixth Evacuation Hospital; during training
Langguth, A. J.
Lao Dong Party
Laos
Laub, David
Lawrence, David
Leavitt, Frederick
Lederer, John
Le Duan
leeches
Lee Kuan Yew
Lenburg, Norman
Leonard, Jerris
Leonhart, William
Leslie, Vernon (Jack)
Lester, Dewey
Lichty, Lawrencen
Life magazine
Lincoln, Gary
Lipp, Jonathan
Lipski, Donald
Locke, Eugene M.
Lonefight, Reynolds
Lorge, Gerald
Lovato, Joe, Jr.
Lowe, Larry E.
Lowell, Robert
Lowenstein, Allard
Luberda, Andrew
Lucas, Jim G.
Luce, Henry
Madison (Wisconsin): Capital Times newspaper; contingent to Washington rally of October 1967; demonstration on October 21; as east side–west side town; four factors in; map of; police culture in; San Francisco Mime Troupe in; Soglin becomes mayor of See also Wisconsin, University of
Mahon, George
Mailer, Norman
mail service
Malone, Paul B.
Manning, Robert
Mansfield, Mike
Maraniss, Elliott
Marcovich, Herbert
Marshall, S. L. A.
Mate, Kenny
Matthews, Steve
McCafferty, Arthur
McCain, John S., Jr.
McCain, John S., III
McCarthy, Eugenen
McCarthy, Joseph R.
McCarthy, Tom
McCormack, John W.
McCrea, Ron
McDevitt, Larry
McFadden, James
McGath, Bill; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; in operation of October 17
McGovern, George
McGovern, Susan: campaigning for her father; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; and the draft; father George McGovern; marriage to Jim Rowen
McMeel, Frank; in evacuation hospital; letter home after battle; in operation of October 14; in operation of October 17
McMillin, Miles
McNally, Jim
McNamara, Robert S.: and budget problems; Dow requesting letter from; on halting bombing; Johnson expresses his pessimism about the war; as losing confidence in the war; at meeting with Johnson on October 3; at Tuesday lunch, October 17; at war council of October 18; on Washington antiwar rally
McParland, Leland
McQuade, Dennis
medics
Menacher, Elizabeth Josephine (Betty); at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; later career of
Menetrey, Louis
Mertz, Edward
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV)
Miller, Peter: en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; and Westmoreland’s hospital visit
Minault, Kent
Mitchell, John
Mohr, Charles
Mondale, Waltern
Moore, Calvin
Morrisette, Charles
Morse, Wayne
Morton, Thurston B.
Mosse, George
M-16 rifles
M-60 machine guns
M-79 grenade launcher
Mucks, Arlie
Muehlenkamp, Bob
Mullen, Thomas V., Jr.
Nagy, Bob
napalm; burns attributed to; as cheap and easy to make; Dow board discussion of; Dow’s public relations campaign on; Dow’s visibility as tied to; in operation of October 17; University of Wisconsin protest against; use against Japan
Nathan, Eric
National Conference for a New Politics (1967)
National Liberation Front (NLF): American peace movement in strategy of; Bratislava meeting with American activists; connection with Hanoi regime; flags carried at Washington demonstration
National Mobilization Committee
National Student Association (NSA)
Nelson, Gaylord
New Left
Newman, George (Buck): and Allen disagreeing about tactics; Allen ordered to walk by; Allen reprimanded by; as paying special attention to operation of October 17; as under pressure; in return to battlefield on October 17; Welch meeting with
New York Times (newspaper) “New Zealand music,”
Ninety-third Evacuation Hospital
Ninth Marine Expeditionary Force
Ninth Viet Cong Division
Nixon, Richard
NLF. See National Liberation Front
NSA (National Student Association)
nuclear disarmament movement
Nui Nho (mountain)
Oakland Induction Center demonstrations
Oberdorfer, Michael: convicted of disorderly conduct; at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; police looking for; as third-generation Jewish student at UW; at Washington demonstration of October 1967
Obert, Edward F.
O’Brien, Ed
Office of Systems Analysis
Office of the Chief of Military History
officers: battles as seen by; changing of; en route to Vietnam; lack of seasoned; at Lai Khe
Officer’s Guide, The
Okinawa
O’Konski, Alvin
Operation Big Red
Operation Billings
Operation Cedar Falls
Operation Daniel Boone
Operation Junction City
Operation Manhattan
Operation Paul Bunyan
Operation Shenandoah II
Operation Tuscon
Operation Uniontown
Operation Yorktown
Ostroff, Steve
Pathet Lao
Peace Corps
peace movement. See antiwar movement
People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN): American troops opposing in 1965; combat planning of; entering South Vietnam; Lam joining; newspaper of
Pepper, William F.
Percy, Charles
Pettit, Tom
Phillips, Jimmy
Phillips, Raymond
Pickart, John
Pierre, Perry
Pipkin, Dona
ld
Plier, Eugene
Pope Pourri (ship’s newspaper)
Porter, Archie
poverty programs
Powers, Thomas
“Prayer for the Journey to the Battlefield, A,”
Price, Lee
Prince, A. K.
Project Gamma
pungi sticks
PX
Pyle, Ernie
Quint, Bert
Quixote (magazine)
Ramparts (magazine)
Rather, Dan
Razo, Jesús
Rear Service Group 83: and ambush of Black Lions; Lam in; as out of rice; in Viet Cong supply network
Reece, Ronnie
Reese, Tom
Reilly, Allan V.
Reiter, Michael
relevance
Rennebohm, Bob
Reston, James (Scotty)
Richter, Steve
riots, urban
Robb, Charles S.
Roberts, Juanita
rock music
Roehling, Al
Rohr, Harold (Babe)
Rolf, Ramon E.
Roseleip, Gordon
Rostow, Walter W.
ROTC
Route (Thunder Road)
Rowen, Jim; becomes Soglin’s mayoral chief of staff; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; on faculty meeting of October 19; later career of; marriage to Susan McGovern; on sit-in over the draft
Rusk, Dean: on Dirksen; Johnson expresses his pessimism about the war; on Kissinger negotiations; at meeting with Johnson on October 3; at Tuesday lunch, October 17; at war council of October 18
Rusk, Howard A.
Samp, Robert
Samson, Richard
San Francisco Mime Troupe; at Dow Chemical protest in Madison; leaves Madison for Iowa; in Minneapolis
Saporito, Jerry
Scheidenhelm, Richard
Schell, Jonathan
Schiro, George
Schroder, Eleanor Heil
Schroder, Jack; daily journal of; death of; en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; funeral of; identifying body of; at Lai Khe; machine gun training for; notifying his wife of his death; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; in operations of early October
Schultze, Charles L.
Schultze, James
Schuster, Frank (Kiko)
Schwartz, Ed
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
Scott, Jimmy
Scott, Lester T., Jr.
Scott, Paul D.
scouts, Vietnamese
search-and-destroy missions
search and seal
Second Congress of Emulatory Heroic Combatants
Selective Service System. See draft, the
Sena, Faustin; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; in evacuation hospital; in operation of October 17