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Vietnam Generation Volume 2 Number 1 GI Resistance: Soldiers and Veterans Article 9 Against the War 1-1990 GI and Veterans' Movement Against the War, 1965-1975: A Selected Bibliography Skip Delano Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/vietnamgeneration Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Delano, Skip (1990) "GI and Veterans' Movement Against the War, 1965-1975: A Selected Bibliography," Vietnam Generation: Vol. 2 : No. 1 , Article 9. Available at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/vietnamgeneration/vol2/iss1/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vietnam Generation by an authorized editor of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SeIectecI BiblioqRAphy Gl ANd Veterans' Movement AqaInst t U e War, 1 9 6 5 1 9 7 5 CoMpiUd by Skip DeIano, DECEMbER 1 9 8 9 How To Use This BiblioqRAphy This bibliography includes articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and books. Many were published during the Vietnam war and are sources a historian might consult if he or she were writing about he antiwar movement of the 1960s. If you want to read more on a particular subject, begin your search under the topic heading you think most appropriate. Also skim through other topic headings for works which might relate to your subject. Some entires overlap these topic headings but are listed here only once. Take a few minutes to skim over the complete list. This bibliography emphasizes materials you will most likely have available in your local library. Almost every library has back issues of the New York Times available on microfilm. You can locate any article in minutes. Therefore, I have included more citations from this source than any other single source. Many of the other newspapers, magazines, and journals should be available on microfilm at most college and university libraries. An often overlooked resource is the Vietnam veteran himself or herself. There are tens of thousands of Vietnam and Vietnam-era veterans who were active in and know about the antiwar movement. Any corrections or additions to this bibliography should be sent to the GI Movement Oral History Research Office, Butler Libraiy, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. BUck ANd ThiRd WoRld GIs O f all the soldiers, the most rebellious were black and latino GIs. They were often in the forefront of combat refusals and antiwar protests in Vietnam while throughout the Armed Forces they launched protests against racism and national oppression. Allen, Mark, “The Case of Billy Dean Smith,” Black Scholar (Oct 1972): 15-17. Goff, Stanley and Robert Sanders, Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam (Novato, CA: Presidio) 1982. Graham, Fred P., “Two Marines Test Right of Dissent: Negroes Appeal Sentences for Antiwar Statement,” New York Times (7 Mar 1969): 11. Grant, Zalin B., “Whites Against Blacks in Vietnam,” The New Republic (18 Jan 1969): 15-16. B ibliography ill Holies, Everett, “Navy Disciplines Dissident Sailors,” New York Times (11 Nov7 1972): 1. Holies, Everett, “Crews Racial Grievances to Get Hearing by Navy,” New York Times {12 Nov 1972): 1. King, William M., ed., A White Man’s War: Race Issues and Vietnam, special issue of Vietnam Generation 1:2 (Spring 1989). Nakamura, Norman, “The Nature of GI Racism,” in Amy Tachiki et al., eds., Roots: An Asian American Reader (Los Angeles: UCLA, Asian American Studies Center) 1971. “Negro and White Marines Clash in Hawaii; 16 Hurt,” New York Times (12 Aug 1969): 23. Nordheimer, Jon, “From Dakto to Detroit: Death of a Troubled Hero,” New York Times (26 May 1971): 1. Parks, David, GI Diary (New York: Harper & Row) 1968. Polner, Murray, “18-Minute Verdict: Military Justice and Constitutional Rights,” Commonweal (18 Mar 1969): 40-43. “Riot at L o n g Binh Stockade Attributed to Racial Acts,” New York Times (4 Sep 1968): 38. Taylor, Clyde, ed., Vietnam and Black America: An Anthology of Protest and Resistance (Garden City, NY: Anchor) 1973. Terry, Wallace, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans (New York: Random House) 1984. GI MuTiNy iN V ietnam Throughout the war there were soldiers in Vietnam who resisted, but after 1968 GI resistance became more common and took on a mass character. Opposition to the war took many forms—ranging from individual acts of insubordination like smoking dope or desertion to whole units of GIs refusing to fight. “A New GI: For Pot and Peace,” Newsweek (2 Feb 1970): 24, 28. Apple, R.W. Jr., “GI Who Refused to Bear Arms in Vietnam Gets Year,” New York Times (12 June 1966): 1. Ayers, B. Drummond Jr., “War Disillusions Many GI’s in Vietnam,” New York Times (4 Aug 1969): 3. Blumenthal, Ralph, “Military TV Newsman in Saigon Shifted After Remark on Agnew,” New York Times (30 Dec 1969): 2. Boyle, Richard, Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army inVietnam (San Francisco: Ramparts) 1972. “Carrot and Stick,” Newsweek (25 May 1970): 45. Collier, Barnard L., “Profile of 4 Navy Deserters: Men Without Compelling Goals, with Dissatisfaction Focused by War,” New York Times (1 Dec 1967): 4. Duncan, Donald, The New Legions (New York: Random House) 1967. Duncan, Donald, “I Quit,” Ramparts 7 (25 Jan 1969) 41-46. Gardner, Fred, “War and G.I. Morale,” New York Times (21 Nov 1970): 31. “G.I. Dead, 58 Hurt in Stockade Riot,” New York Times (30 Aug 1968): 6. “G.I. Who Deserted from Vietnam Gets 4 Years,” New York Times (7 Mar 1969): 10. Gibson, James William, The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (Boston: Atlantic Monthly) 1986. Grant, Zalin, Survivors: American POWs in Vietnam (New York: Norton) 1975. 112 Vietnam Generation Jury, Mark, The Vietnam Photo Book (New York: Grossman) 1971. “Just Downright Refusal,” Newsweek (20 Apr 1970): 51. Kamm, Henry, “Army is Checking Antiwar Petition," New York Times (21 Nov 1969): 10. Lang, Daniel, Casualties of War (New York: McGraw-Hill) 1969. Proffitt, Nicholas C., “Soldiers Who Refuse to Die,” Newsweek (25 Oct 1971): 67- 68. “Rioters at Marine Brig Set Fire to Cell Block,” New York Times (8 Aug 1968): 4. Smith, George E., P.O.W.: Two Years with the Viet Cong (Berkeley: Ramparts) 1971. “Some G.I.s in Vietnam Join Protest," New York Times (16 Oct 1969): 22. Sterba, James P., “A War Critic in Vietnam,” New York Times (14 Nov 1969): 21. Trumball, Robert, “Japanese Pacifists Report 4 Deserted a U.S. Carrier in War Protest," New York Times (14 Nov 1967): 1. “Two Freed G.I.s Say U.S. Should Quit Vietnam,” New York Times (1 Dec 1965): 1. "U.S. Officer Guilty: Refused Jungle Post,” New York Times (26 Jun 1965): 1. "2d Riot Quelled at Vietnam Brig,” New York Times (19 Aug 1968): 5. G I M o v e m e n t OuTsidE of VIet n a m What started as individual acts of antiwar resistance in the military grew into a mass movement and spread to every major U.S. military base in the world. The mass movement was at its peak during 1969 to 1972. The GI movement involved literally tens of thousands of GIs. They created GI organizations such as Baltimore GIs United (Fort Holabird, MD), GIs United Against the War (Fort Bragg, NC), GI Co-ordinating Committee (Fort Sam Houston, TX), Movement for a Democratic Military (San Diego, CA), Gl-Civilian Alliance for Peace (Fort Lewis, WA), American Servicemen’s Union (New York), and Unsatisfied Black Soldiers (Mannheim, Germany). “After the March,” New Republic (29 Nov 1969): 7-9. Antiwar advertisement signed by 1,365 active-duty servicemen. New York Times (9 Nov 1969): 9 “Anned Forces: The Peace GIs,” Newsweek (21 Apr 1969): 36-37. “Army Sentenced to Death,” The Movement (Feb-Mar 1970): 4. Arnold, Martin, “3 Soldiers Hold News Conference to Announce They Won’t Go to Vietnam," New York Times (1 Jul 1966): 13. Barnes, Peter, “Hacking it in the Action Army: The Presidio Mutiny,” The New Republic (5 Jul 1969): 21-25. Barnes, Peter, “Liberty and Justice for Some: TheArmyand the First Amendment,” The New Republic (24 May 1969): 13-14. Currey, Cecil B., Self-Destruction: The Disintegration and Decay of the United States Armed Forces During the Vietnam Era (New York: Norton) 1981. Davis, Dennis, “GI Joe’s a Red,” Progressive Labor 7:2 (Aug 1969): 48-56 Franklin, Ben A., “War Resistance by G.I.s is Urged," New York Times (14 Nov 1969): 13. Franklin, Ben A., “G.I.s Sue Army on Rights,” New York Times (2 Apr 1969): 1. Franklin, Ben A., “The Private and the General: War’s Foes Petition Poses Challenge,” New YorkTimes (12 May 1969): 4. Gardner, Fred, The Unlawful Concert: An Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case (New York: Viking) 1970. B ibliography 11? “G.I. Loses in a Suit to End Vietnam War,” New York Times (16 Feb 1966): 3. “G.I.’s Join Group to Protest War,” New York Times (29 Dec 1968): 7. Gioglio, Gerald R , Days o f Decision: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War (Trenton, NJ: Broken R ile Press) 1989. Goodman, Mitchell, The Movement Towards a New America (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press; and, New York: Knopf) 1970. Halsted, Fred, CIs Speak Out Against the War: The Case of the Fort Jackson 8 (New York: Pathfinder Press) 1970. G l D R u q C u I t u r e Throughout the war, marijuana usage was high and widespread in Vietnam. Heroin became widely available after 1968.