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Vietnam War, 1961-1975

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

College of Fine Arts and Communications slides

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: UA PS 16
Scope and Contents

Contains lantern slides and 35 mm slides produced by the College of Fine Arts and the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Includes images from an Independence Day celebration at the university stadium, as well as slides from a Thanksgiving Day assembly about the Vietnam War. Materials date from between approximately 1953 and 1973.

Dates: approximately 1953-1973

Fenton Lyn Drake oral history

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232573276]
Identifier: MSS 8546
Scope and Contents

Contains an Oral history interview with Fenton Lyn Drake, conducted by Jacob Nelson on October 2, 2012 for a World Civilizations course taken at Brigham Young University. The oral history discusses Fenton Lyn Drake's pre-Vietnam experience including: his mission, the draft, and deferments. He then tells about his combat experience in the war and his opportunity to sare the gospel with fellow soldiers, and his post war experiences. Dated October 2, 2012.

Dates: 2012 October 2

Santry Elmer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9214
Scope and Contents Collection includes mission journals and other personal ephemera belonging to Santry Elmer; missionary teaching material; historical reports related to the fall of South Vietnam to northern Communism; and related Church and governmental publications. Subjects of materials relate to Elmer's experience serving as a missionary in Vietnam until missionaries were evacuated in April 1975, their subsequent waiting in Hong Kong, and being reassigned to serve in Vietnamese refugee camps in...
Dates: approximately 1955-1980; Majority of material found within 1974-1976

Ignacio Garcia oral history

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232572146]
Identifier: MSS 8123
Scope and Contents

Contains the oral history of a Brigham Young University history professor who immigrated to the United States from Mexico with his family in 1956. Also contains his memories of the Vietnam War. The date is 2012.

Dates: 2012

Gary Dean Rhay interview, 2004

 Series — Carton 147: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 9; Series 10; Series 12; Series 13; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15, Folder: 69
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 12 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

File contains interview with Gary Dean Rhay regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Dated 2004.

Dates: 2004

James N. McCabe photographs of Vietnam

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6217
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of photographs taken by McCabe for the army during the Vietman War. The content deals primarily with McCabe's army service as a photographer in Vietnam between September 1969 and September 1970. His work also documents his personal interest in Vietnam civilian life, primarily in the form of transparencies, with some black and white prints and negatives. Materials dated 1969 to 1970.

Dates: 1969-1970

Oral history interview with Ray C. Hillam

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 181
Scope and Contents Briefly comments on China Teachers Program which sent couples to China to teach English beginning in 1989; International Relations Program, subsequently known as David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies; and Washington Seminar, which sent students to study in Washington D.C. Also mentions his experience as a Fulbright professor in Vietnam during Vietnam War, and on the "spy scandal" at BYU in the late 1960s. Interviewed by Carol Ottesen, historian of BYU Emeritus Alumnus...
Dates: 2000

Lyman De Platt family papers

 Collection — Carton 1: [Barcode: 31197231011807]
Identifier: MSS 7569
Scope and Contents

Contains six volumes of transcripts of the papers of the Lyman De Platt family. These include typed up journals, letters, notes, and family documents. The volume of journals also contains notes on the journal entries, written by Lyman thirty years later as he transcribed them. The six volumes are part of a larger collection: The Platt Family Records Center.

Dates: 2007-2008

Ray C. Hillam research papers, 1945-2005

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1643 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains notes, articles, bibliographic analysis, correspondence, and ephemera collected or created by Hillam in the process of his research as a faculty member at Brigham Young University. Dated from 1945 to 2005.

Dates: 1945-2005

Saints at War in Korea videocassettes, approximately 2005

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 19 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains interviews and scenic and other footage relating to the military service of Latter-Day Saints in Korea. Dated approximately 2005.

Dates: approximately 2005