Vietnam War Bibliography:

Congressional Committee Documentation:

The Anti-War Movement

House Committee on Un-American Activities (the common acronym HUAC is based on an alternate word order, House Un-American Activities Committee)

Hearings on H.R. 12047, H.R. 16175, H.R. 16175, H.R. 17140, and H.R. 17194--Bills to Make Punishable Assistance to Enemies of U.S. in Time of Undeclared War. Investigative hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, August 16-23, 1966.
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Part 1: Hearings of August 16-19. pp. vi, 911-1234, xiv. Witnesses included Edwin Meese III (later to be Ronald Reagan's Attorney General).
Part 2: Hearings of August 19, 22, and 23, 1966. pp. vi, 1235-1397, iv. Witnesses included BG James D. Hittle, USMC (Ret.), representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW);   Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Personnel Policy) BG William W. Berg;   Deputy Attorney General (soon to become Attorney General) Ramsey Clark.   BG Berg said in his opening statement (p. 1305), "We do not have any evidence available to us, or reports by commanders in the field that indicate that the morale of our forces has been impaired by the demonstrations of dissent to United States policy, by the publicized assertions to intent to assist our adversaries, or by the gestures of impeding the military effort."

Communist Origin and Manipulation of Vietnam Week (April 8-15, 1967). Report of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, March 31, 1967. House Document No. 90-186. v, 55, xi pp. An almost complete copy has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts: partial front matter (without table of contents) and index;   partial front matter (with table of contents) and pp. 1-21;   pp. 22-54, followed by unpaginated documentation that in the original was scattered through the publication, not grouped at the end.
H. Doc. 90-186 {in volume 12765-3}
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Subversive Involvement in Disruption of 1968 Democratic Party National Convention. Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, October 1 to December 4, 1968.
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Part 1: Hearings of October 1, 3, 4, 1968. pp. iv, 2237-2491, xiv. Witnesses included an investigator working for the committee, and some Chicago police officers, but also some anti-war figures, including Robert Greenblatt.
Part 2: Hearings of December 2, 3, 1968. pp. iv, 2493-2687, viii. The witnesses were Thomas Emmett Hayden (Tom Hayden) and Rennard Cordon Davis (Rennie Davis).
Part 3: Hearings of December 4, 5, 1968. pp. iv, 2689-2820, vi. The only witness was David Dellinger.

Renamed the House Committee on Internal Security in 1969

Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society. Hearings before the House Internal Security Committee, June 3-December 18, 1969.
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Part 1-A (Georgetown University). Hearings of June 5, 17, 1969.   pp. v, 1-266, vii.
Part 1-B (Georgetown University). Hearings of June 3, 4, 1969.   pp. v, 267-474, vii.
Part 2 (Kent State University). Hearings of June 24, 25, 1969.   pp. v, 475-642, vii.
Part 3-A (George Washington University). Hearings of July 22 1969.   pp. v, 643-869, viii.
Part 3-B (George Washington University). Hearings of July 23, 24 1969.   pp. v, 871-1047, x.
Part 4 (American University). Hearings of July 24, 1969. pp. v, 1049-1145, iv.
Part 5 (University of Chicago; Communist Party Efforts with Regard to SDS). Hearings of August 6, 7, 1969. pp. v, 1653-1742, vi.
Part 6-A (Columbus, Ohio, High Schools). Hearings of October 20-22, 1969. pp. v, 1743-1923, vi.
Part 6-B (Akron, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; and Pittsburgh, Pa.). Hearings of October 28-30, 1969. pp. v, 1925-2183, xi.
Part 7-A (Return of Prisoners of War, and Camera News, Inc., "Newsreel"). Hearings of December 9-11, 16, 1969.   pp. v, 2185-2430, xii. Includes extensive testimony by two former POWs, Robert F. Frishman and Douglas B. Hegdahl, who had been released in August 1969.
Part 7-B (SDS Activities at Fort Dix, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; and Chicago, Ill.). Hearings of December 17, 18, 1969.   pp. v, 2431-2612, ix.

SDS Plans for America's High Schools. Report by the House Committee on Internal Security, 1969.
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New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, hearings before a subcommittee of the House Internal Security Committee, April 7-June 11, 1970.
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Part 1: Hearings of April 7, 8, 9, 15, 1970. pp. v, 3843-4150, xxvii.
Part 2: Hearings of June 9-11, 1970. pp. v, 4151-4295, vi.

Subversive Involvement in the Origin, Leadership, and Activities of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and its Predecessor Organization. Staff Study of the House Committee on Internal Security, 1970. xiv, 70, xviii pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts: pp. i-xiv, 1-12,   pp. 13-37,   pp. 38-62, and pp. 63-70, i-xviii (index).
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Anatomy of a Revolutionary Movement: Students for a Democratic Society. Report of the House Internal Security Committee, October 6, 1970. vii, 175, xiii pp.
H. Rept. 91-1565 {in volume 12886-2}

National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice (PCPJ). Hearings of the House Committee on Internal Security, May 18 to June 17, 1971. NPAC and PCPJ were successor organizations to the New Mobe, which had broken up in mid 1970. The committee said that NPAC was influenced by the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist), while the National Coalition Against War, Racism and Repression (NCAWRR), later renamed the PCPJ, was more influenced by the CPUSA.
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Part 1. Hearings of May 18-21, 1971. pp. vi, 1445-1839, xxxiii. Particularly concerned with anti-war demonstrations in DC, April 24-May 5, 1971.
Part 2. Hearings of June 15-17, 1971. pp. vi, 1841-2335, lxxxvii.
Part 3. Hearings of July 13-15, 1971. pp. v, 3307-3527, xxiii.
Part 4. Hearings of Julyy 22-22, June 17, 1971. pp.v, 3529-4042, xli.

Progressive Labor Party. Hearings of the House Committee on Internal Security, April 13 and 14, November 18, 1971. pp. v, 4043-4447, xix.
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Investigation of Attempts to Subvert the United States Armed Services. Hearings before the House Internal Security Committee, October 20, 1971-June 20, 1972.
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Part 1. Hearings of October 20, 21, 22, 27, and 28, 1971.   pp. v, 6381-6843, xxxiv.
Part 2. Hearings of November 9, 10, 16, and 18, 1971, and May 2 and 3, 1972.   pp. v, 6845-7217, xiii. Testimony by three retired generals, including S.L.A. Marshall, on pp. 6979-7006.
Part 3. Hearings of May 9 and 10, June 1 and 20, 1972.   pp. v, 7219-7537, xvii.

Hearings regarding H.R. 16742: Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas. Hearings of the House Committee on Internal Security, September 19 and 25, 1972, on Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi in July 1972, and related issues. Pp. i-vi, 7539-7760, i-vi. There is considerable detail on Fonda's activities. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in five parts: Front matter and pp. 7539-7582, pp. 7583-7632, pp. 7633-7682, pp. 7683-7732, and pp. 7733-7760, i-vi (index).
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Hearings on Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas: H.R. 1594 (Clean Bill H.R. 8023), H.R. 278, H.R. 297, H.R. 2691, H.R. 3999, H.R. 6047. Hearings of the House Committee on Internal Security, May 9 and 10, 1973, on bills that would have established heavy criminal penalties for Americans who travelled to places like North Vietnam without US government permission. The chairman of the committee was sponsoring such a bill, H.R. 8023. v, 78, iii pp. There is testimony by former prisoners of war James A. Mulligan, Edwin A. Shuman, Thomas Hall, Jr., David W. Hoffman, and Larry Carrigan. Also by Ramsey Clark.
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Restraints on Travel to Countries or Areas Engaged in Armed Conflict with the U.S. Report of the House Committee on Internal Security, June 4, 1973. 33 pp.
H. Rpt. 93-248 {in volume 13020-2}

Senate Judiciary Committee

The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement: The Problem of Communist Infiltration and Exploitation. A staff study prepared for the Internal Security Subcommittee, Senate Judiciary Committee. October 25, 1965. 256 pp. Senate Document No. 72, 89th Congress, 1st Session.
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Extent of Subversion in Campus Disorders. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 26, August 12, 1969.
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Extent of Subversion in the "New Left". Hearings before the Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, January 20-August 6, 1970.
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Testimony of Gerald Wayne Kirk. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, March 9, 10, 11, 1970. Kirk had infiltrated leftist organizations in Chicago.
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State Department Bombing by Weather Underground. Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Senate Judiciary Committee, January 31, 1975. ii, 29 pp.

The Weather Underground. Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1975. v, 169 pp.
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Private Sector Publications on the Anti-War Movement

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