Thorsen, Karen. “A P.O.W. Wife Turns Political.” Life, September 29, 1972.
Wainwright, Loudon. “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again—or Doesn’t.” Life, November 10, 1972.
Weller, Sheila. “It Happened in 1967.” Vanity Fair, March 2017.
Websites
BlackPast.org. http://www.blackpast.org.
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. www.dpaa.mil.
History.com. “Operation Rolling Thunder.” www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/operation-rolling-thunder.
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. www.nixonlibrary.gov.
Selective Service System. “About the Agency.” www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/Induction-Statistics.
Senator Bob Dole Official Website. www.bobdole.org.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page/The Wall USA. www.thewall-usa.com.
Film, Video, and Television Programs
“1971 Mrs. Paul Galanti, Wife of Prisoner of War, Pleads for Prisoner Release.” YouTube video, 1:33, from a news report broadcast by WSLS TV on February 9, 1971. Uploaded by nutty.archives, September 27, 2016. www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6h-ik-bQA
American Experience. “Return with Honor.” PBS, 2000. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/filmmore/ps-geneva.html (webpage discontinued).
Fastoso, Mark, dir. Jeremiah. Birmingham: Alabama Public Television, 2015, 57 mins.
Unpublished Works
Boroughs, Merriann. Scrapbook. February–March 1973. Boroughs family private collection.
Capen, Richard. Untitled autobiography, n.d. Collection of Richard Capen.
Denton, Jeremiah, III. Unpublished memoir, 2017. Collection of Jeremiah Denton III.
Knapp, Helene. “Helene’s Memoire from the Years 1946–1978.” Unpublished memoir, 1978.
Mackenzie, Ross. Retirement scrapbook. December 11, 2006.
Smith, Steven L. “The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973; Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power.” PhD diss., University of San Diego, April 2006.
Stratton, Sallie. “Losing Chuck, Finding Sallie: Odyssey of an MIA Wife.” Unpublished memoir, 2016.
Books
Abramson, Rudy. Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman, 1891–1986. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
Allen, Michael J. Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs and the Unending Vietnam War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Berrigan, Daniel. Night Flight to Hanoi: War Diary with 11 Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Clinton, James W. The Loyal Opposition. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1995.
Collins, Gail. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. New York: Little, Brown, 2009.
Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter’s Life. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Davis, Vernon E. The Long Road Home: U.S. Prisoner of War Policy and Planning in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2000.
Denton, Jeremiah A., Jr., with Ed Brandt. When Hell Was in Session. Clover, SC: Commission Press, 1976.
Dole, Bob. One Soldier’s Story: A Memoir. New York: Harper, 2005.
Farrell, John A. Richard Nixon: The Life. New York: Doubleday, 2017.
Ferguson, Niall. Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist. New York: Penguin Press, 2015.
Franklin, H. Bruce. M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992.
Grubb, Evelyn, and Carol Jose. You Are Not Forgotten. St. Petersburg, FL: Vandamere Press, 2008.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1992.
Howes, Craig. Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Flight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History—The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Kissinger, Henry. Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
McCain, John, with Mark Salter. Faith of My Fathers. New York: Random House, 1999.
McGovern, James R. Black Eagle. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
McMaster, H. R. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam. New York: Harper Perennial, 1997.
Moreau, Donna. Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War. New York: Atria, 2005.
Morris, David J. The Evil Hours. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Nixon, Richard. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.
Olson, Lynne. Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour. New York: Random House, 2010.
Powell, S. Steven. Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies. Ottawa, IL: Green Hill, 1988.
Pye, Anne Briscoe, and Nancy Shea. The Navy Wife. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Rochester, Stuart I., and Frederick Kiley. Honor Bound: The History of American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973. Washington, DC: Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1998.
Stockdale, Jim and Sybil. In Love and War: The Story of a Family’s Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Year. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Swerdlow, Amy. Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Swift, Will. Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Thomas, Evan. Being Nixon: A Man Divided. New York: Random House, 2015.
Tierney, Helen, ed. Women’s Studies Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Townley, Alvin. Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2014.
Updegrove, Mark K. Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency. New York: Skyhorse, 2012.
Van Atta, Dale. With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Knopf, 2017.
INDEX
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African Americans
combat troops
Holland as
James, D., as
Marines
National League integration of
POW/MIAs
Rander, A., and
Rander, D., as
Air Force, U.S.
The Air Force Wife and
Colorado Springs and
League denying coup of retired
MIA wife of
pilots of
POWs returning
wives of
The Air Force Wife
Alvarez, Everett, Jr.
as first naval aviator POW
anti-war activists
accomplishments of
Boroughs using
COLIAFAM as militant
Denton, Jane, sending letters with
Liberation Magazine as
mixed motives for
Mobe and New Mobe as
to North Vietnam
North Vietnam talking with
POW/MIA wives interaction with
POW/MIAs and wives as hostage to
propaganda soldiers as
protests by
releases accomplished by
Weiss as left-leaning
Appeal for International Justice
heavy-hitter support for
POW/MIA families to
Army, U.S.
&nb
sp; The Army Wife and
families
news and grouping as
POW son joining
POWs returning as
wives
The Army Wife
Boroughs, Robert Sams “Bob” Jr.
anti-war activists used by
covert and coded letters with
Harriman not liked by
Mr. POW known as
Naval Intelligence officer as
Navy POW families as friends with
POW/MIA meeting spied upon by
POW/MIA wives recognition by
POW/MIA wives working with
truth told by
Twinem as assistant to
U.S. department distrust seen by
wives and formal organization by
Brady, Louise
Brett, Carol
“Bring Paul Home” letter campaign
bumper stick campaign
Burns, Doug
Burns, Pat
Butler, Karen
League of Wives finalizing by
Look magazine interviewing
moving from base
news of MIA, then POW for
recording Nixon, R., delegates
on Stockdale, S.
Butler, Phillip Neal
CACO. See casualty assistance calls officer
Capen, Richard “Dick”
meeting anger remembered by
personal Swedish connections of
on POW/MIA data-collecting mission
casualty assistance calls officer (CACO)
Grubb, E., suspicion of
POW/MIA families with assigned
cease fire agreement
Kissinger on
POW/MIA details of
Chiang Kai-shek
children
of Coronado peninsula
POW/MIA and anonymity for
POW/MIA children meeting other
POW/MIA suffering for
Christmas bombing
Christmas seals campaign
Civil Rights Act of 1964
POW/MIAs and wives shut out from
women and rights under
civilians
collateral damage to
MIAs as
POWs returning as
Code of Conduct
capture and chain of command
early release as violating
Eisenhower establishing
Korean War prompting
scrutiny of
SERE teaching
U.S. encouraging disobedience of
COLIAFAM. See Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam
Colorado Springs. See also Knapp, Helene
Air Force based in
Paris protest and
wives in
Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam (COLIAFAM)
Galanti, Phyllis, receiving letter via
mail contact cut by
as militant peace group
National League as opposite to
North Vietnam allowing packages by
North Vietnam snubbing U.S. with
phones and addresses given out by
POW and MIA lists through
POW/MIA wives on danger of
publicity death announcements by
Stockdale, J., on forced visits with
warning on working with
Communists
bullets defeating
Eisenhower warning on
Galanti, Phyllis, meeting French
Hanoi as capitol for
Korean War and POW treatment by
no writing to leaders of
POW treatment by
Congressional hearings
POW/MIA wives speaking at
Shuman, E., speaking at
Connell, James “J. J.”
Connell, Jenny
coded letters written by
League of Wives finalizing by
on letter deliveries
Cormier, Irene Davis
Coronado peninsula
children of
new naval amphibious base on
Vietnam War influencing
covert and coded letters
Boroughs promoting
ONI and
POW/MIA wives writing
POWs sending
Stockdale, S., writing
Crayton, Patsy
on stress overtaking wives
Washington, D.C., move for
Crayton, Render
Cronkite, Walter
Davis, Rennard “Rennie”
death
COLIAFAM gaining publicity on
of LBJ
POW/MIA wives and stages of
Defense Department, U.S.
Pentagon and State mistrusted by
Dennison, Sandy
on going public
League of Wives finalizing by
Stockdale, S., and
Dennison, Terry
Denton, Jane
anti-war activists and letters from
Boroughs working with
coded letters written by
East coast meetings for
on edgy meeting
family reunion for
on government not doing job
group kept together by
gumption back for
on husband letter
IRC contact by
make-believe game seen by
MIA husband for
military connections made by
Nixon, R., incensing
no South Vietnamese introduction for
premonition and news for
private grief of
protest letter from
questions by
Semmes meeting with
Tschudy, J., meeting
off
Washington, D.C., connections of
Denton, Jeremiah “Jerry”
as Alabama Senator
blinking by
family reunion for
Geneva Convention illustrated by
marched and beaten
POW spokesman as
shot down in July 1965
on television
Diem, Ngo Dinh
diplomacy
in Paris
POW/MIA and futile
POW/MIA wives in
Vietnam War history in
Distinguished Public Service Award, U.S. Navy
Dodge, Mary
Dole, Robert J. “Bob”
on Congress not knowing POW/MIA
Freedom Rally promoted by
POW/MIA families writing to
on Senate recognizing POW/MIAs
on Sweden interning POWs
on women strength
domino theory
Dunn, Joseph P.
Dunn, Maureen
early release
anti-war activists accomplishing
Code of Conduct violated by
Fink Release Program as
injured POWs accepting
U.S. government advocating for
East coast wives
cultural changes for
going public for
meetings for
National League office for
1967 formal meetings for
Virginia Beach donated building to
Washington, D.C., and
West coast meets
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Code of Conduct establishing
Communist warning from
SERE prescribed by
Europe
Geneva Convention in
North Vietnam audience trip to
POW/MIA wives to
Fellowes, Pat
financial issues
Stockdale, S., concerned on
wives unable to execute
Fink Release Program
First Ladies
Nixon, P., hosting
Nixon, R., toasting POW wives as
Fonda, Ja
ne
Freedom Rally
Constitution Hall for
Dole, Moser promoting
low turnout for
Mulligan, L., speech at
Frishman, Robert
Galanti, Paul
family reunion for
shot down June 1966
Galanti, Phyllis
Boroughs working with
COLIAFAM delivering letter to
family reunion for
French Communist meeting for
Grubb, E., proximity to
husband and preparation by
information telegraphed by
from introvert to extrovert
invincible feeling for
Kissinger on
media connection by
National League leadership for
Nixon, R., meeting with
North Vietnam demand by
pregnancy and life for
Richmond support and
as shy, intelligent
Sweden interning POWs and
Gartley, Mark
Geneva Convention
in Europe
North Vietnam and
U.S. and upholding
going public
Grubb, Evelyn “Evie”
on CACO suspicion of
Galanti, Phyllis, proximity to
National League leadership for
on peace group accomplishments
on Perot support
as unwanted problem for U.S.
Grubb, Wilmer Newlin “Newk”
Habib, Philip
Haig, Alexander
Halyburton, Marty
Halyburton, Porter
Hanoi
As Communist capitol
on pilots as criminals
POW/MIA families and alternatives to
“Write Hanoi” campaign to
Hanoi Hilton
gallows humor naming
husbands in
leaving jails of
pilots kept in
PTSD as low after
torture at
Hanoi March
Hanson, Carole
bumper sticker campaign by
fundraising ability of
National League leadership by
on POW/MIAs for bargaining
Harkness, Paula
Harriman, Averell
ambassador in charge of POWs
appeasement policy of
Boroughs, Twinem not fans of
“crocodile” code name for
evidence sharing shut down by
formal organization and response by
JFK “wise man”
on Nixon, R.
no peace accomplishment by
POW/MIA wives briefed by
Stockdale, S., decision made by
Stockdale, S., meeting with
wives writing to
Havens, Charlie
Hegdahl, Douglas
Henry, Debby Burns
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