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9. Nell Strickland, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2013.
10. Bill Sittig, in discussion with the author, May 4, 2013.
11. Army Library Operational Guide: Army Library Program, [Washington], 1961, http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001344736.
12. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Cele [last name unknown], November 21, 1964, RRC, USHMM.
13. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Marvin Scott Rubinstein, February 2, 1968, Peter Bartis personal collection.
14. A. A. Allison, To Spurn the Gods (Bloomington, IN: Booktango, 2012), p. 86.
15. Allison, To Spurn the Gods, pp. 87–88.
16. Allison, To Spurn the Gods, pp. 84–88.
17. Email from A. A. Allison to author, April 11, 2013.
18. Allison, To Spurn the Gods, p. 124.
19. Allison, To Spurn the Gods, pp. 126–28.
20. Larry Engelmann, “The Rise and Fall of the American Mayor of Saigon,” Pushing On (blog), April 3, 2012, http://lde421.blogspot.com/2012/04/rise-and-fall-of-american-mayor-of.html; Peter Vogel, “Paul Masters, Captain Archie Kuntze and Madame Sun,” chap. 2 in The Last Wave from Port Chicago ([self-pub.?], 2002), http://www.petervogel.us/chapters/LastWave_Ch2.pdf; Douglass H. Hubbard Jr., Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006), p. 26.
21. Letter from Michael D. Lawrence (commander, Judge Advocate General’s Core, US Navy) to author concerning FOIA request for Archie Kuntze’s trial records, July 9, 2013.
22. Joseph DiMona, Great Court-Martial Cases (New York City: Grosset and Dunlap, 1972), p. 191.
23. DiMona, Great Court-Martial Cases, p. 208.
24. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Archie Kuntze, November 16, 1966, RRC, USHMM.
25. Email from A. A. Allison to author, April 11, 2013.
CHAPTER 28
1. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Marvin Scott Rubinstein, February 2, 1968, Peter Bartis personal collection.
2. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
3. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
4. Hank Ferguson is a pseudonym.
5. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
6. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
7. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
8. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
9. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
10. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
11. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
12. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
13. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
14. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
15. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
16. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
17. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
18. Rappaport to Rubinstein, February 2, 1968.
19. Nell Strickland, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2013.
CHAPTER 29
1. Bill Sittig, in discussion with the author, May 4, 2013.
2. Fran Buckley and William Sittig, “Veteran Librarians” (webcast), November 1, 2005, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3821.
3. Peter Robert Young oral history, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, AFC/2001/001/66648, Library of Congress.
4. Gabe Horchler, in discussion with the author, May 14, 2013; oral history in Gabriel Francis Horchler Collection, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, AFC/2001/001/27689, Library of Congress.
5. Veteran Librarians webcast.
6. Disposition form, October 5, 1971, Special Services General Records, box 2, folder “LSC- Magazines and Newspapers,” Record Group 472, NARA.
7. Ann Kelsey, interview conducted by Steve Maxner, Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, March 27, 2001.
8. Oral history interview in Peter Young Collection (AFC/2001/001/66648), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; email from Peter Young to author, February 11, 2018.
9. These numbers are from Ruth Rappaport’s résumé on her federal job application, November 1970, Official Personnel Folders, NARA, and Ruth Rappaport, “The USARV Library Program—In Retrospect.”
10. Bill Sittig, in discussion with the author, May 4, 2013; Nell Strickland, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2013.
11. Veteran Librarians webcast.
12. Email from Peter Young to author, February 11, 2018.
13. Veteran Librarians webcast.
14. Frederick J. Stielow, “The War and Librarianship: A Study in Political Activism,” in Activism in American Librarianship, 1962–1972, edited by Mary Lee Bundy and Frederick J. Stielow (New York City: Greenwood Press, 1987).
15. In his book To Spurn the Gods, A. A. Allison mentions meeting General Taylor in Saigon with Archie Kuntze. Therefore, Rappaport most likely met him as well.
16. Ann Kelsey, interview conducted by Steve Maxner, Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, March 27, 2001.
17. Nell Strickland, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2013.
18. Ann Kelsey, interview conducted by Steve Maxner, Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, March 27, 2001.
19. Nell Strickland, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2013.
20. Ann Kelsey, interview conducted by Steve Maxner, Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, March 27, 2001.
21. Oral history interview in Peter Young Collection (AFC/2001/001/66648), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
22. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Special Services officer, February 25, 1965, RRC, USAHEC.
23. Meredith H. Lair, Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), p. 172.
24. Request for Expendable Reading Materials, July 8, 1971, National Archives, RG 472, Special Services General Records, box 2, folder “Magazine Requests and Distribution, 1967–71”; Norman M. Camp, US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare (Washington, DC: Borden Institute, US Army Medical Department Center and School, 2014), pp. 349–52.
25. Book catalog, 1971, National Archives, RG 472, Special Services General Records, box 4, folder “SOP Field Collections.”
26. Lair, Armed with Abundance, p. 136.
27. “U.S. Army Special Services: Where the Action Is” (recruitment video), 1970, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyqtiosYYw; Lair, Armed with Abundance, pp. 134–35.
28. Lair, Armed with Abundance, pp. 25–26. As Lair argues, these statistics greatly differ from the common narrative from popular culture of young men dying in the jungle. It is possible that recognizing the massive amount of leisure activities available in Vietnam can reframe how we view the war, without disrespecting those who served and died in combat roles and did not participate in or benefit from these other activities.
29. Summary of program meeting on “Books as Weapons,” July 12, 1996, American Library Association, Public Library Association, Armed Forces Librarian Section, American Library Association Archives, Record Group 29/2/6, box 18, folder “AFLS Board Minutes and Agenda, 1966–1967.”
30. Ann Kelsey, who served as an army librarian in Vietnam, has also conducted personal research into the history of the libraries there and has regularly participated in veterans’ events since the 1990s. She also concurs that most veterans do not remember the library system.
31. Vietnam Vets Reading Survey, conducted by author, 2013–2014.
32. Adjutant general and Special Services newsletters, Record Group 472, Special Services General Records, box 1, NARA.
33. Oral history interview in Peter Young Collection (AFC/2001/001/66648), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
34. Lair, Armed with Abun
dance, pp. 23–65.
35. Gabriel Francis Horchler, oral history interview, Gabriel Francis Horchler Collection, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
36. Janice Carney, interview conducted by Laura M. Calkin, OH0426, Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, May 24, June 6, 7, and 8, 2005.
37. John Christian Worsencroft, “Salvageable Manhood: Project 100,000 and the Gendered Politics of the Vietnam War,” master’s thesis, University of Utah, 2011, http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd3/id/594.
38. Tom Sticht, “‘McNamara’s Moron Corps’: They Done Good After All!” August 9, 2012, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327369169_McNamara’s_Moron_Corps_They_Done_Good_After_All.
39. Email from Joe Hudson to author, January 28, 2014; Peter Young oral history, Veterans History Project, Library of Congress.
40. Email from Ann Kelsey to author, January 26, 2014.
41. Vietnam Vets Reading Survey, conducted by author, 2013–2014.
42. Keyes Beech, “U.S. Troops in Vietnam Quite Bookish,” Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1969, p. B4.
43. These three complete and comprehensive lists appear in the National Archives, RG 472, Special Services General Records, box 4, folder “SOP Field Collections.” Other book and magazine lists (some partial) appear in the Special Services General Records.
44. Email from Nolan Dehner to author, May 12, 2013.
45. Ann Kelsey, interview conducted by Steve Maxner, Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, March 27, 2001.
46. Vietnam Vets Reading Survey, conducted by author, 2013–2014.
47. Book reviews for Once an Eagle on Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/Once-Eagle-Novel-Anton-Myrer/dp/1455121355.
48. Vietnam Vets Reading Survey, conducted by author, 2013–2014.
49. The title of this book is Ambush: The Battle of Dau Tiang.
50. Comment by Anonymous [Joe Hudson] on the post, “Vo Nguyen Giap, 1911–2013,” October 4, 2013, http://unsolicitedopinion.blogspot.com/2013/10/vo-nguyen-giap-1911-2013.html.
51. Emails from Joe Hudson to author, January 26 and 28, 2014.
52. Nell Strickland, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2013.
53. Email from Ann Kelsey to author, January 26, 2014.
54. Ann Kelsey, interview conducted by Steve Maxner, Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, March 27, 2001.
55. Requests for construction, March 17, 1970, RG 472, Special Services General Records, box 3, folder “Library Buildings Damaged w/ Plans to Rebuild,” NARA.
56. Darro Wiley, in discussion with the author, February 22, 2014.
57. Email from Floyd Zula to author, May 2, 2013.
58. Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA.
59. Ruth Rappaport, “The USARV Library Program—In Retrospect.”
60. Lee Dreyfus Report, March 1972, RG 472, Special Services General Records, box 1, folder “Lee Dreyfus Report,” NARA.
CHAPTER 30
1. Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA.
2. John Y. Cole, America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2017), p. 158.
3. John Y. Cole, “The Library of Congress & the Library Community: Bicentennial Background,” Library of Congress (website), http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9908/biback.html.
4. “History of the Library of Congress,” Library of Congress (website), https://www.loc.gov/about/history-of-the-library/.
5. Kay Elsasser, in discussion with the author, May 11, 2013.
6. The Annex Building was later renamed the John Adams Building, and the Main Building was renamed the Thomas Jefferson Building.
7. Thompson Yee, in discussion with the author, May 8, 2013.
8. Ruth told Peter several times about her work with the Delta Collection, although other sources indicate that it was fully recataloged by the time Ruth started her job. She may have continued the regular cataloging of pornographic and other sex-related materials. See Roy M. Mersky and Michael L. Richmond, “Treatment of Sexually Oriented Magazines by Libraries,” in Sex Magazines in the Library Collection: A Scholarly Study of Sex in Serials and Periodicals, A Monographic Supplement to the Serials Librarian 4, 1979/1980 (New York City: Haworth Press, 1981), p. 51.
9. Departmental & Divisional Manuals, no. 18–18A (Library of Congress, 1951), http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5168447;view=1up;seq=5.
10. Departmental & Divisional Manuals, p. 44.
11. Melissa Adler, Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (New York City: Fordham University Press, 2017), p. 82.
12. Mersky and Richmond, Sex Magazines in the Library Collection, p. 51.
13. Letter from George to Ruth Rappaport, February 23, 1972, Peter Bartis personal collection.
14. George to Rappaport, February 23, 1972.
CHAPTER 31
1. Letter from Gabe Horchler to Ruth Rappaport, November 30, 1973, Peter Bartis personal collection.
2. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Gabe Horchler, January 1974, Peter Bartis personal collection.
3. Rappaport to Horchler, January 1974.
4. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Gabe Horchler, June 1974, Peter Bartis personal collection.
5. Rappaport to Horchler, June 1974.
6. Rappaport to Horchler, June 1974.
7. Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Services, Library of Congress, Classification: Class H, Subclasses HM–HX, Social Sciences: Sociology, 1980.
8. “Library of Congress Classification Outline: Class H,” https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_h.pdf.
9. Rappaport to Horchler, June 1974; Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Services, Library of Congress, Classification: Class H, Subclasses HM–HX, Social Sciences: Sociology, 1980.
10. Rappaport to Horchler, June 1974.
11. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Gabe Horchler, February 1975, Peter Bartis personal collection.
12. Suzanne E. Thorin and Robert Wedgeworth, “The Librarians of Congress: Past and Future,” American Libraries, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/librarians-of-congress/.
13. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Gabe Horchler, August 23, 1975, Peter Bartis personal collection.
CHAPTER 32
1. Jon Wiener, Professors, Politics and Pop (New York City: Verso Books, 1994), p. 55.
2. Nomination of Daniel J. Boorstin of the District of Columbia to be Librarian of Congress: Hearings before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, July 30 and 31, and September 10, 1975 (Washington: GPO, 1975), p. 138.
3. Nomination of Daniel J. Boorstin of the District of Columbia to be Librarian of Congress, p. 177. Williams was fired from his job as a copyright examiner when it was revealed that he had lied about having a law degree from Georgetown University. While at LC, he had become a trusted leader among black employees and held several leadership positions in the AFGE Local 1826 union and the Black Employees of the Library of Congress organization. Williams later unsuccessfully sued LC for discrimination in the case Joslyn N. Williams v. Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of the Library of Congress, Appellant, 1980.
4. “Library of Congress Suspends 28 Employees Staging Protest,” Washington Post, June 24, 1971.
5. “Library of Congress Suspends 28 Employees Staging Protest,” Washington Post.
6. “Peers’ Challenging Library of Congress: Library Challenged by Peers,” Washington Post, January 31, 1972.
7. “District of Columbia—Race and Hispanic Origin: 1800 to 1990,” United States Census Bureau, 2002.
8. Bridget Bowman, “Diversity Concerns Linger at the Library of Congress,” Roll Call, July 12, 2016, https://www.rollcall.com/news/diversity-concerns-linger-library-congress.
9. “Longest EEOC Class-Action Case Nears End for Black Federal Employees,” Washington Informer, July 19, 1995.
10. “Longest EEOC Class
-Action Case Nears End for Black Federal Employees,” Washington Informer.
11. Library of Congress Personnel Policies and Procedures, Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, March 18 and 24, 1993.
12. Prepared Statement of Eleanor Holmes Norton, US Delegate from the District of Columbia, Library of Congress Personnel Policies and Procedures, Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, March 18 and 24, 1993, p. 48.
13. “Longest EEOC Class-Action Case Nears End for Black Federal Employees,” Washington Informer.
14. Bowman, “Diversity Concerns Linger at the Library of Congress.”
15. Kathy Sawyer, “Library’s Bias Complaints Unsolved Despite Court Order,” Washington Post, March 5, 1979.
16. “Barbara Ringer, 1973–1980,” US Copyright Office.
17. “Library of Congress Is Found to Discriminate against Women,” Washington Post, August 10, 1972; Barbara A. Ringer, Plaintiff, v. L. Quincy Mumford, Individually and as Librarian of Congress, et al., Defendants, Civ. A. No. 2074-72, US District Court, DC, February 28, 1973.
18. Another union at LC, the AFCSME Local 2477 for non-professional employees, had formed sometime previously according to the LC Bulletin.
19. “Leaflet, Anyone!?&%,” Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 2, no. 4 (June 1977).
20. “Guild News Distribution Comes in From the Cold!” The Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 2, no. 8 (December 1977).
21. “Let Them Read Cake Recipes!” The Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 2, no. 6 (September 1977).
22. “Announcements,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, November 5, 1976.
23. “Council 26 Sponsors Vietnamese Family,” Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 5, no. 2 (Summer 1980).
CHAPTER 33
1. Email from Thompson Yee to the author, October 26, 2018.
2. Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA.
3. “About Library of Congress Authorities,” Library of Congress (website), https://authorities.loc.gov/help/contents.htm.