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Title: 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform, Image 03
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr
Description: Pamela Beardsley
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; student; alumni; 1969; activism; protests; Martin Luther King; police; police violence; anti-war; Cambodia; Vietnam; Kent State; graduation
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1744

Title: Art Grau Interview, October 22, 2020
Date: October 22, 2020
Creator: Art Grau; Connor Mitchell
Description: Art Grau served in the US Army during the Vietnam War. He served with the 1st Air Cav unit and worked in Army Intelligence. He arrived in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive and speaks about his time in Vietnam and his return to civilian life after his tour of duty.
Subject: army intelligence; First Air Cavalry; helicopters; reconnaissance; Tet; Tet Offensive; Bien Hoa Airbase; Vietnam War; Hue; Camp Evans; US Army; Vietnam; Thailand; Queen's Cobras; Germany; armored personnel carriers; ambush; memoir; writing; book; author
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2549
Rights statement: Rights belong to the Humanities Truck at American University’s Library.

Title: Jane McCarthy Interview, October 9, 2020
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Jane McCarthy; Connor Mitchell
Description: Dr. Jane McCarthy served in Vietnam as a nurse in the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Da Nang. Prior to her deployment to Vietnam, Dr. McCarthy worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit’s recovery staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. Prior to enlisting in the Army as a nurse, Dr. McCarthy grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The interview spans the story of Dr. McCarthy’s life immediately before the war in Vietnam, during her time in Vietnam, and immediately after her return home from the war. Interview conducted virtually via TheirStory
Subject: Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Vietnam; Vietnam War; Saigon; Da Nang; hospital; 95th Evacuation Hospital; army; surgery; helicopter; nursing; nurse; military medicine; protest; anti-war; enlistment; corpsman; doctor
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2552
Rights statement: Rights belong to the Humanities Truck at American University’s Library.

Title: Tim Brady Interview, October 7, 2020
Date: October 7, 2020
Creator: Tim Brady; Connor Mitchell
Description: An overview of pre-war life before the Vietnam War alongside a summary of Mr. Tim Brady’s actions on the USS Hugh Purvis, DD-709, which was stationed off of the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. Mr. Tim Brady is a Rockville, Maryland native who enlisted in the Navy right out of high school. He was stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin from 1968 until 1969. Interview conducted virtually via TheirStory.
Subject: Navy; Vietnam; Vietnam War; Destroyer; USS Hugh Purvis; Gulf of Tonkin; Viet Cong; naval; artillery; bombardment; Agent Orange; aircraft carrier; minesweeper; radarman
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2543
Rights statement: Rights belong to the Humanities Truck at American University’s Library.