Larry Rottmann Collection, c. 1960s-1990s (WUNP 5858)

PRELIMINARY INVENTORY

INTRODUCTION

Compilation of correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, publications, newspaper clippings, teaching material, production material, and audio and video recordings related to Vietnam and the Vietnam war; 1960s-1990s.

RESTRICTION

Written permission required from donor to view, study, copy, or use in any way, until the death or incapacitation of the donor. Consult the reading room staff for copyright restrictions and donor's current address.

Box List

Box 125th Infantry Division, 1967-1968
  • Division magazine, newsletter, & press releases, Army
  • Censorship in Vietnam,by Larry Rottmann
  • Slides
  • Box 2Vietnam Veterans for McCarthy, 1968 (also see oversize Box 83)
  • Campaign material
  • Clippings
  • Correspondence
  • Miscellaneous
  • Boxes 3-8Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), 1969-1972 (also see oversize Box 83)
    Box 3
  • Literary material
  • Correspondence
  • Promotional material
  • Veterans' job problems
  • VA hospitals
  • Legislation for Vets
  • Dewey Canyon III
  • Unsell campaign
  • Winter Soldier (newspaper)
  • Cairo Project
  • Veterans benefits
  • POWs
  • Box 4
  • Veterans' drug problems
  • Promotional material
  • Financial statements
  • Future activities
  • Fund raising
  • Clippings
  • VVAW background
  • Art work
  • 1st Casualty Press
  • Speeches
  • Organizational guidelines
  • Box 5
  • New Mexico chapter
  • Veterans' Chapel
  • Diary excerpts
  • Albuquerque Area Vets
  • Background questionnaires
  • By-laws
  • Chapter newsletters
  • Poetry / short stories
  • Press releases
  • Chemical warfare
  • Box 6
  • Clippings
  • American Legion / VFW
  • My Lai
  • Diary excerpts
  • Handouts
  • Essays
  • Winter Soldier investigation
  • Box 7
  • Anti-war clippings, articles, and publications
  • Short stories / letters
  • Correspondence
  • Box 8
  • Publications and clippings
  • Box 9Anti-war
  • Publications, clippings
  • Southwest Missouri State College
  • Students for a Democratic Society
  • Box 10Packrat Press
    Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems of Vietnam Veterans, 1st Casualty Press, 1972
    College writing (Rottmann)
    Book proposals and outlines
    Short stories
    Non-Vietnam writing
    Unfinished writing
    Poetry
    Story ideas
    Letters
    Goddard College
    Miscellaneous personal papers
    (also see box 30 for Rottmann writing)
    Box 11Packrat Press mailing list, promotional material and miscellaneous
    Boxes 12-20Southeast Asia Ozark Project (SEAOP), includes administrative correspondence, and exhibit, publication, and performance production and promotional material. (Also see boxes 103-105)
    Boxes 12-13Correspondence and subject files, 1990-1993
    Box 14As Seen By Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War, 1995. (Also see oversize Boxes 84-85)
    Box 15As Seen By Both Sides . . .
    In the Land of Perfume
    Images of Vietnam: Photographs From the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1966-1992
    Faces From Vietnam, 1989
    The Bicycle Doctors: Life in a Vietnamese Hospital, 1990
    Box 16Voices From Vietnam, Past, Present, and Future, 1989
    Box 17Voices From Vietnam . . .
    Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
    Box 18Voices From Vietnam . . .
    Echoes of Vietnam, 1989
    Box 19Voices From the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry of America and Vietnam, 1965- 1993
    Box 20Voices From the Ho Chi Minh Trail . . .
    A Vietnam Weekend
    Vietnam Today
    Vietnam War films
    Box 21Veterans' Day
    Agent Orange
    Rottmann service papers
    Officer Candidate School reunion
    Box 22Vietnam War, killed in action list
    Box 23Rottmann trips
  • Europe, 1971 (includes testimony before International Commission of Enquiry in
  • U.S. in Indochina, Oslo, Norway)
  • China, 1972
  • Boxes 24-27Rottmann trips
  • Vietnam and SE Asia, 1980s-1990s, includes correspondence, itineraries,
  • clippings, diaries, notes, photographs, and related material.
  • (Also see oversize Box 86)
  • Box 28Subject files
  • Vietnam films
  • National response letter & bibliography
  • Edward Abbey
  • Scholars Academy
  • Vietnamese community in US
  • Anti-war songs
  • Vietnamese musical instruments
  • Vietnam conferences
  • Vietnam veterans
  • Indochina newsletter
  • Box 29Subject files
  • Cruise to Vietnam, 1997
  • Vietnam International Education Trust
  • Larry Heinemann
  • Journalism contests
  • American Popular Culture Assoc. Conference
  • VVAW 25th reunion
  • Publication correspondence
  • Columbia College poetry reading
  • Midwest Modern Language Assoc.
  • Grant material
  • Box 30Rottmann writing, includes manuscripts and notes for American Eagle, 1977 and poetry and short stories.
    Box 31Vietnam Writers' Workshop, Joiner Center, U. of Massachusetts, 1989-1990
    Manuscripts, novels and plays, Vietnamese authors
    Boxes 32-35Teaching material, Southwest Missouri State University, English Dept. courses in creative writing and Vietnamese literature 1986-1994, includes:
  • Course material
  • Student papers and evaluations
  • administrative correspondence
  • grant applications
  • campus event material
  • teaching and educational background material
  • Box 36Teaching material, Southwest Missouri State University . . .
    High school teaching
    Boxes 37-47Newspaper and magazine clippings, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and other publications, and other miscellaneous Vietnam related background material; 1960s-1990s.
    Boxes 48-81Vietnam War / Vietnam related books
    Boxes 48-74Non-fiction
    Boxes 48-60General historical and political background, memoirs etc.
    Box 61Draft, Deserters, POWs and MIAs, Veterans
    Box 62Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
    Box 63
  • Women
  • War crimes
  • Box 64
  • Chemical warfare
  • Film and culture
  • Box 65Photo books
    Boxes 66-71Vietnamese publications (in English), history, literature, art, culture, and tourism
    Box 71Vietnamese publications (in Vietnamese)
    Box 72Vietnamese language material
    Boxes 73-74China / Japan
    Boxes 75-81Fiction
    Box 81Poetry
    Box 82T-shirts, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and Vietnam related Banner, Images of Vietnam
    Boxes 83-86Oversize material, posters, artwork, photographs, teaching material and miscellaneous.
    Box 83Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans for McCarthy, anti-war, teaching material, and miscellaneous
    Boxes 84-85As Seen by Both Sides
    Box 86Vietnamese artwork and memorabilia, and miscellaneous
    Box 87¾" Video Cassettes
  • Voices From Vietnam
  • Voices From Vietnam Master Scene #2
  • Voices From Vietnam Master Scene #3
  • Voices From Vietnam Master Scene #4
  • Voices From Vietnam Master B-1
  • Voices From Vietnam Master B-2
  • Voices From Vietnam Master B-3
  • Voices From Vietnam Master B-4
  • Voices From Vietnam Master D
  • Voices From Vietnam Master B/D
  • Voices From Vietnam Master Scene 1
  • Voices From Vietnam safety tape
  • Faces - 2nd generation master
  • Box 88¾" Video Cassettes
  • Voices & Faces- 1989 Pop Culture Assoc.
  • Faces From Vietnam - Master
  • Faces From Vietnam A-1
  • Faces From Vietnam B-1
  • Faces From Vietnam C-1
  • Faces From Vietnam raw footage
  • Water Puppets - Dub from 8mm
  • Bicycle Doctors - safety tape
  • Bicycle Doctors - rough cut #3, final version, 1990
  • Dong Gong Hat - Part 2
  • Dong Gong Hat - 2nd generation dub
  • L.C.-South Vietnam ARC
  • Gen. Loan- ARC and ARC footage
  • Vietnamese Film Archives- Part 2
  • Box 89¾" Video Tape
  • Only the Beginning
  • Vietnam Tape- Lely Hayslip
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Part 2
  • As Seen By Both Sides -
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Robert Olin Butler interview
  • As Seen By Both Sides - National Archives, Marine Archives
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Vietnam Film Archives
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Paintings
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Hanoi
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Editco, volume 2
  • As Seen By Both Sides - NVA (2 tapes)
  • As Seen By Both Sides - fall 1990
  • As Seen By Both Sides - David Thomas, tape 2
  • Howard Zinn interview, part 1&2
  • Box 90¾" Video Tape
  • As Seen by Both Sides- Vietnam, Beta
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Paintings
  • As Seen By Both Sides - National Archives
  • As Seen By Both Sides - 1 C
  • As Seen By Both Sides - 1995, finished copy
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Rough cut, 1C
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Med 383, Biggs interviews
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Med 383, Biggs interviews
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Med 383, Biggs interviews
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Tin Le
  • As Seen By Both Sides -
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Paintings, 3&4
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Med 383
  • Comp 7: A Message From Vietnam
  • Box 91¾" Video Tape
  • As Seen By Both Sides - David Thomas
  • As Seen By Both Sides - #40
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Vo Ciang Huong
  • As Seen By Both Sides - #18
  • As Seen By Both Sides - Baranick
  • As Seen By Both Sides
  • As Seen By Both Sides - C-3
  • Box 92¾" Video Tape
  • Vietnam Film Institute
  • Hanoi, Comp. 94
  • Guernica- Arc photos
  • Vietnam Film Archives- Comp 1
  • WPA film transfers
  • Local Talk
  • Bicycle Doctors
  • Howard Zinn- Part 1&2
  • Howard Zinn- Final, March 3, 1987
  • Voices From Vietnam - Performance reel
  • Dong Gong Hat - Part 1
  • Dong Gong Hat - Part 2
  • Bicycle Doctors, 1990
  • Box 93¾" Video Tape
  • Voices From Vietnam III- Video effects tape
  • Abandoned Field - Part 1 (4 copies)
  • Abandoned Field - Part 2 (4 copies)
  • Student Video - Interview with Chicago Vietnam Veteran
  • Student Video - SMSU replica of Vietnam Veteran Memorial
  • Box 94VHS Video Cassette Tapes
  • All the Unsung Heroes
  • And They Were Five
  • As Seen By Both Sides (14 copies, various)
  • Crossing the DMZ
  • Echoes of Vietnam (3 copies, various)
  • Forgiving Not Forgetting (3 copies)
  • Hanoi- Hour, Day, & Year
  • Ho Chi Minh Trail (2 copies)
  • Nhung Khoanh Khac
  • The Bicycle Doctors
  • The Water Puppets of Vietnam (2 copies)
  • Vietnam Art by Students
  • Vietnam Art Exhibit
  • Vietnam Revisited
  • Vision World
  • Why Vietnam/ Only the Beginning
  • Welcome to SMSU and Springfield, MO
  • Ms. Huong From Hanoi
  • Reflexes and Reflections: Art of American Vietnam Veterans
  • UCLA Vietnam class- "60 Minutes"
  • One Small Community Remembers Vietnam
  • Heavy Hearts (2 copies)
  • John Wayne: Propagandist
  • Box 95VHS
  • Vietnam Show - University of Wisconsin
  • Dear America, Letters Home From Vietnam
  • Gardens of Stone
  • Off Limits (2 copies)
  • Rolling Thunder: a Vietnam POW Returns
  • Good Morning Vietnam
  • Riders of The Storm (American Way) 2 copies
  • Jackknife
  • War Stories
  • A Rumor of War
  • Hanoi Hilton
  • Shooters
  • When Are You Coming Back Red Rider?
  • Welcome Home
  • Pow: The Escape
  • The Iron Triangle
  • Green Berets
  • Voices From the Ho Chi Minh Trail
  • Vietnam Lit. Final Project (Spring 1993, Michael Cobb)
  • Vietnam: A Television History (America Takes Charge)
  • Vietnam: A Television History (Vietnamizing The War)
  • Vietnam: A Television History (America's Enemy, 1954-1967)
  • Vietnam: A Television History (Tet, 1968)
  • Phu Dong, Vietnam Percussion, 1994
  • Le Lue- Larry Rottmann Interview
  • Images of Vietnam
  • Hanoi Foreign Language College and Vietnamese Studies Center
  • Saigon Nhac Tre'
  • Poetry Reading at the Phillips (August 7, 1980)
  • Box 96VHS
  • Neil Sheehan: "Vietnam, How could this War Have Happen?" (3 copies)
  • Vietnam Revisited, April 1, 1992 (C-Span)
  • Friendship Forever
  • Trip to Vietnam (July 1992)
  • Voices From Vietnam
  • Voices From Vietnam (September 26, 1991)
  • Forgotten Veterans: Nurses in Vietnam ("60 minutes", March 25, 1989)
  • Photography in Vietnam (class lecture)
  • Dong Gong Hat
  • TV News- Larry in Vietnam
  • The Hip-Hai Hospital and University
  • Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (C-Span, April 25, 1991)
  • Images of Vietnam
  • Hoi Thao Cua Cac
  • Return to Vietnam ("60 Minutes", March 1989)
  • Final Project (Robin Vanderbrut, Spring 1989)
  • Vietnam, 1990
  • Larry (WGBH)
  • Voices in Question
  • Scent of Green Papayas
  • Vietnam Trip, January 1994 (KY-3)
  • Vietnam- Work Copy
  • IAP Trip to Vietnam (July 1992)
  • Box 9716mm Film
  • Abandoned Field (reels 1-5)
  • Box 9816mm Film
  • Abandoned Field (reels 6-9)
  • Box 9916mm Film
  • Dawn Canyon III (25 minutes)
  • You Don't Have to Buy Wars Mrs. Smith (30 minutes)
  • Only the Beginning
  • Winter Soldier Investigation (17 minutes)
  • Bicycle Doctors 2-inch master
  • Different Son* (2 reels, 52 minute)
  • *Oversize
  • Box 100Records
  • The Flower of Champa (45)
  • Music of the Chinese Tribes in the Golden Triangle
  • Montage No. 11 (4 copies)
  • Recruiting- Spot Announcements (Navy)
  • Here's to Veterans
  • The Wit of Senator McCarthy
  • Vietnam: Songs of Liberation (2 copies)
  • Help Unsell The War
  • American Report
  • Box 101Audio Cassettes (92 total): Includes music (both American and Vietnamese), taped radio shows, and interviews.
  • 1 CD entitled Stilling Time: Traditional Musics of Vietnam
  • From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards: Traditional Music of Vietnam (book)
  • Box 102Reel-to-Reel Audio
  • Help Unsell the War
  • Larry Rottman Reading (KBIA)
  • Larry Rottman Interview (WVXU)
  • Radio Spots
  • Rottman Interview (WHAM, NYC)
  • Dak To
  • Larry Rottman Reading
  • People in the News
  • Studs Terkel
  • Misc. Audio
  • Winter Soldier
  • Larry Rottmann Interview (1973, Philadelphia)
  • Larry Rottman (Bucknell, 1972)
  • Free Fire Zone
  • In The Name of Defense
  • Vietnam Veterans in Wounded Knee
  • Larry Rottmann (Gary Cruz Show)
  • Larry Rottmann Masters 1&2
  • Bicycle Doctors
  • Boxes 103 - 105Correspondence and other material related to SEAOP programs, and Vietnam related publishing, teaching, and research material; 1988-1997
    Box 106Newspaper columns - Republic Monitor and Ash Grove Commonwealth, 1996-2001

    INDEX TERMS

    These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

    • Rottman, Larry (1942- )
    • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
    • Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements
    • Southeast Asia Ozark Project, Southwest Missouri State University