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Kumin, Judith
Judith Kumin retired from a 32 year career working for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. She discusses the UNHCR response to the postwar Indochinese refugee crisis, including the Orderly Departure Program (1979 -1994) that helped to…
Moorefield, Kenneth P.
Kenneth Moorefield, Deputy Inspector General for the Department of Defense, discusses his deployment to Vietnam as an adviser in the lower Mekong Delta providing training and weapons to the South Vietnamese from 1967 until he was wounded in April of…
Sorley, Lewis
Lewis Sorley is an American intelligence analyst, lecturer and military historian who was deployed to Vietnam as an Army major in 1966. Based on his experiences and research, he wrote the book "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final…
Dang, Vo Thuy and Linda Trinh Vo
Linda Trinh Vo, (professor of Asian American Studies) and Thuy Vo Dang (project director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project) describe the UC Irvine Southeast Asian Archive, that focuses on collecting materials about Cambodian, Laos and…
Rosenblatt, Lionel
Lionel Rosenblatt discusses his experiences as a former foreign service officer with the CORDS program in Vietnam, whose goal was to gain support from the rural population for the government of South Vietnam. He organized a way to evacuate by air…
Hsu, Madeline
Dr. Madeline Hsu served as the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She details her research interests and her editorial work and speaks about the importance of Asian American studies as a field of…
Yablonka, Marc Phillip
Marc Yablonka holds a Master's of Professional Writing degree earned from the University of Southern California and has worked as a military journalist and as an adjunct professor of English. He has written the book Distant War: Recollections of…
Lu, Nina
Nina Lu is a 1.5 generation American from the Hunan region in China. Her father is from Vietnam. She is currently working on a Master's in Business at UT Austin. She speaks about the importance of improving access to a broader historical perspective…
Arnett, Peter
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett discusses the debates on policy and strategy relating to the Vietnam War and his experiences reporting for the Associated Press in Saigon beginning in 1966. Arnett was one of the last western reporters in…
Armitage, Richard L.
Richard L. Armitage is a former American naval officer and Vietnamese language speaker who served three combat tours of duty during the Vietnam War. In this interview, he discusses one of his missions, which was to deny the enemy the use of important…