Vietnam War

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Malvina Stephenson Papers, 1863-1996 (C4038)
8.75 cubic feet (278 folders), 1 audio disc, 2 video cassettes

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The papers of Malvina Stephenson contain the professional papers of a journalist who spent most of her career covering politics in Washington, D.C. The collection includes story and subject files, scrapbooks of articles and columns, research for a biography on Senator Robert S. Kerr, scripts for radio news reports, and other personal and professional material.

Stuart Symington Papers, 1953-1976 (C3562)
292 rolls of microfilm

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Carbon copies of letters sent from Stuart Symington's office while he was a Democratic senator from Missouri. The files are arranged alphabetically by year.

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W. Stuart Symington Papers, 1918-1995 (C3874)
316.25 cubic feet (6937 folders, 321 boxes), 86 ephemera items, 41 audio discs, 11 audio cassettes, 64 audio tapes, 32 reels of 16mm film, 2reels of 35mm film, 3 video tapes, 2 video cassettes, 2 CDs, 5 DVDs

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The papers of William Stuart Symington, U.S. Senator from Missouri (1953-1976), include constituent correspondence, family and personal correspondence, limited genealogical and family materials, appointment books and calendars, audio and video recordings, campaign materials, editorial cartoons, select invitations and itineraries, limited pre-senatorial materials, photographs, photographic negatives and slides, press files, scrapbooks, selected Congressional testimonies, speeches, staff memoranda, voting records, and miscellaneous ephemera.

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Teresa Gallagher Papers, 1927-1988 (S0871)
5 cubic feet

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This collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, and audio recordings. The materials in this collection document Teresa Gallagher’s involvement with the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation, the Tom Dooley Heritage, Inc., and other organizations and people who worked to continue Dr. Tom Dooley’s mission to provide medical care to developing nations. The collection also includes information regarding Gallagher’s book Give Joy to My Youth: A Memoir of Dr. Tom Dooley.

Sidney J. Thierjung Papers, 1966-2010 (C4678)
0.74 cubic feet (1 oversize volume, 3 oversize items)

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The papers of Sidney John Thierjung,  a Vietnam War veteran, include photographs, a scrapbook, and military service documents.

Sidney J. Thierjung Papers, 1966-2010 (C4678)
0.74 cubic foot (1 oversize volume, 4 oversize items)

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The papers of Sidney John Thierjung,  a Vietnam War veteran, include photographs, a scrapbook, and military service documents.

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University of Missouri-Columbia Campus Ephemera, 1967-1978 (C3628)
0.4 cubic feet (35 folders)

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Papers produced by various anti-war, political, religious, student, and community groups for distribution on the UMC campus: newspapers, newsletters, broadsides, petitions, flyers, handbills, pamphlets, posters, circular letters, reprints, programs, announcements, and position papers.

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Veterans History Project (Cass County, Mo.) Collection, 2002-2005 (C4569)
0.6 cubic feet (38 folders, 42 audio cassettes)

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Oral history interviews and transcripts of Missouri veterans conducted as part of the Library of Congress, Veterans History Project in Cass County, Missouri. Collection also includes transcriptions, miscellaneous photocopied military papers, and some photographs.

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Vietnam War Moratorium Papers, 1969 (C3325)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers contain pamphlets and newspapers gathered during student strike and anti-war moratorium at University of Missouri-Columbia, October 15, 1969. Materials present various views and positions regarding U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and student attitudes toward this involvement.

Vietnam War Photographs, 1968 (C3324)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Photographs of Vietnamese villages, Marine artillery, and water buffalo.

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Clayvon A. Wesley Papers, 1969-1970 (S0572)
0.01 cubic feet

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The Clayvon A. Wesley Papers contain materials from Wesley's time serving in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Items of interest include letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a handmade award given to Wesley from the hospital he served in during the war.

H. Clyde Wilson Papers, 1962-1984 (C0390)
5.6 cubic feet (321 folders)

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The papers contain campaign materials from Wilson’s 1970 challenge to the 8th district’s incumbent U.S. congressman Richard H. Ichord, arranged as county files or research and reference files; Columbia City Council files arranged alphabetically by topic; and material regarding cable television coming to Columbia.

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Women's Hearings of the War in Vietnam Collection, 1972-1973 (S0109)
0.03 cubic feet, 3 folders, 4 photographs

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The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a transcript, documenting the Committee for the Women’s Hearing on the War in Vietnam’s public hearing on the United States involvement in Southeast Asia, held on June 17, 1972, at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis, Missouri.

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