They Marched Into Sunlight (96 page)

Green Berets

Greenfield, Jeff

Gribble, Ray

Grider, Edward J.

Griego, Santiago

Gritsmacher, Jerry

Gromyko, Andrei

Grosso, Gerard

Group

Gruening, Ernest

guerrilla theater

Guevara, Che

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Hadden, James

Halberstam, David

Halliday, David

Hammond, William M.

H and I (harassing and interdiction) fire Hanson, Ralph; and campus drug use as defendant in Soglin’s lawsuit; and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; Kauffman meeting daily with; Soglin and; Swacker and

Hargrove, Olin

Harrington, Fred Harvey: and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; and Dow Chemical recruiting; and draft protest; as historian; on Kauffman; Leonard and; on out-of-state students; radicals’ anger at; on student protests

Harrington, Jack

Harry, Deborah

Hartwig, Bob

Harvard University

Haslach, Henry

Hawley, James P.

Hay, John Hancock, Jr.; Allen blamed for debacle by; Allen named battalion commander by; on battle of October 17 as not an ambush; Costello given Silver Star by; on First Division going back for its men; George visited in hospital by; given Allen Sr.’s combat booklets; at MACV headquarters on October 17; at memorial service; on mortar use; as under pressure; Silver Star for; with Westmoreland

Hay, William H.

Hayden, Tom

helicopters

Helms, Richard

Hendershot, William L. (Curly); recruiting for Dow at UW

Henriques, Darryl

Hershey, Lewis Blaine

Hickey, Robert

Hinger, Tom (Doc): after battle of October 17; at Bien Hoa replacement center; Cash interviewing; and Holleder; identifying bodies; interviewed by the press; letter home after battle; in network of Black Lions veterans; in operation of October 17; returns to Lai Khe; in return to battlefield on October 17; Silver Star for; travels to Vietnam

hippies

Hiroshima

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Hodges, Donnie

Hoffman, Abbie

Hoffman, Bert

Holden, Arthur

Holden, Joan

Holleder, Donald (Holly); Blaik’s homage to; Cash’s investigation into death of death of; Hinger attempts to help; Hinger network paying homage to; identifying body of; newspaper reports of death of; observing mission of October 17; in return to battlefield on October 17; and Shelton; in television production on athletes killed in battle; Welch meets with

Hope, Bob

Horst, Kyle

Howard, Robert E.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Hung, Sau

Hunter, John Patrick

Hylton, Alvin R.

ice cream plants

Ichord, Richard H.

Illinois, University of

Iron Triangle

Jagielo, Allen

Jamison, P. Evangeline

Jennings, Peter

Jensen, Merrill

Jensen, Robert

Johnson, Harold K.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Johnson, Lynda Bird

Johnson, Lyndon B.: antiwar protests as obsession of; budget problems of; considers not running again; declines renomination; and Dow Chemical Company; on draft resistance; “Dump Johnson” movement; escalates war in 1965; Great Society of; Gulf of Tonkin resolution; “guns and butter” policy of; “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?,”; letter of condolence for Terry Allen; likeness on homecoming float; Manning interview with; orders more troops to Vietnam; pessimism about the war; primary election opposition to; on reforms needed by Thieu; Souvanna Phouma meets with; at Tuesday lunch October 17; Vietnam War as dilemma for; war council of October 18 and Washington demonstration of October 1967

Johnson, Tom

Johnson, Willie C.: dying from his wounds; favorite song of; in operation of October 17

Jones, Bernard Francis

Jones, James C.

Jones, Richard

Julian, Percy: and Dow Chemical demonstration of October 1967; as the lawyer for student demonstrators; and restraining order on disciplining protesters; in Soglin’s suit against Kauffman; state senators’ plan to embarrass; Stielstra represented by

Kaplan, Jack T.

Kaplan, William Karnow, Stanley

Kasik, Jim: in operation of October 15; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; recovering bodies; in return to battlefield on October 17; VC base camp found by

Kastenmeier, Robert W.

Katzenbach, Nicholas

Kauffman, Joseph F.; and Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; “Let Joe handle it,”; liberalism of; Mime Troupe and; radicals’ anger at; on Stark; and student drug use

Kay, Lieutenant

Keene, David A.

Kellogg, Blake

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Key, Roy

killing: body counts; kill ratio; light-hearted terms for; soldiers en route to Vietnam thinking about

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kirkpatrick, Fred

Kissinger, Henry

Knops, Mark

Knowles, Warren P.

Koch, Don

Korten, Patrick

Kraft, Joe

Krasny, Michael

Krische, John D.

Ky, Nguyen Cao

LaFollette, Bronson

LaFollette, Robert M., Jr.

Lai Khe: as First Infantry base; French rubber plantation near; ice cream plant at; location of, Viet Cong mortar attacks on; villagers supporting Viet Cong; after the war

Laird, Melvin

Lam, Nguyen Van

Lancaster, Jerry

Landon, Gregory; arrives in Vietnam; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; evacuation from battlefield; at Fort Lewis; at Lai Khe; letters home after battle; at Ninety-third Evacuation Hospital; in operation of October 17; in operations of early October; at Thirty-sixth Evacuation Hospital; during training

Langguth, A. J.

Lao Dong Party

Laos

Laub, David

Lawrence, David

Leavitt, Frederick

Lederer, John

Le Duan

leeches

Lee Kuan Yew

Lenburg, Norman

Leonard, Jerris

Leonhart, William

Leslie, Vernon (Jack)

Lester, Dewey

Lichty, Lawrencen

Life
magazine

Lincoln, Gary

Lipp, Jonathan

Lipski, Donald

Locke, Eugene M.

Lonefight, Reynolds

Long Nguyen Secret Zone: CS attack in; First Infantry Division operating in; First Viet Cong Regiment in; location of;
Rear
Service Group 83 in

Lorge, Gerald

Lovato, Joe, Jr.

Lowe, Larry E.

Lowell, Robert

Lowenstein, Allard

Luberda, Andrew

Lucas, Jim G.

Luce, Henry

Madison (Wisconsin):
Capital Times
newspaper; contingent to Washington rally of October 1967; demonstration on October 21; as east side–west side town; four factors in; map of; police culture in; San Francisco Mime Troupe in; Soglin becomes mayor of
See also
Wisconsin, University of

Mahon, George

Mailer, Norman

mail service

Malone, Paul B.

Manning, Robert

Mansfield, Mike

Maraniss, Elliott

Marcovich, Herbert

Marshall, S. L. A.

Mate, Kenny

Matthews, Steve

McCafferty, Arthur

McCain, John S., Jr.

McCain, John S., III

McCarthy, Eugenen

McCarthy, Joseph R.

McCarthy, Tom

McCormack, John W.

McCrea, Ron

McDevitt, Larry

McFadden, James

McGath, Bill; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; in operation of October 17

McGovern, George

McGovern, Susan: campaigning for her father; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; and the draft; father George McGovern; marriage to Jim Rowen

McMeel, Frank; in evacuation hospital; letter home after battle; in operation of October 14; in operation of October 17

McMillin, Miles

McNally, Jim

McNamara, Robert S.: and budget problems; Dow requesting letter from; on halting bombing; Johnson expresses his pessimism about the war; as losing confidence in the war; at meeting with Johnson on October 3; at Tuesday lunch, October 17; at war council of October 18; on Washington antiwar rally

McParland, Leland

McQuade, Dennis

medics

Menacher, Elizabeth Josephine (Betty); at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; later career of

Menetrey, Louis

Mertz, Edward

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV)

Miller, Peter: en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; and Westmoreland’s hospital visit

Minault, Kent

Mitchell, John

Mohr, Charles

Mondale, Waltern

Moore, Calvin

Morrisette, Charles

Morse, Wayne

Morton, Thurston B.

Mosse, George

M-16 rifles

M-60 machine guns

M-79 grenade launcher

Mucks, Arlie

Muehlenkamp, Bob

Mullen, Thomas V., Jr.

Nagy, Bob

napalm; burns attributed to; as cheap and easy to make; Dow board discussion of; Dow’s public relations campaign on; Dow’s visibility as tied to; in operation of October 17; University of Wisconsin protest against; use against Japan

Nathan, Eric

National Conference for a New Politics (1967)

National Liberation Front (NLF): American peace movement in strategy of; Bratislava meeting with American activists; connection with Hanoi regime; flags carried at Washington demonstration

National Mobilization Committee

National Student Association (NSA)

Nelson, Gaylord

New Left

Newman, George (Buck): and Allen disagreeing about tactics; Allen ordered to walk by; Allen reprimanded by; as paying special attention to operation of October 17; as under pressure; in return to battlefield on October 17; Welch meeting with

New York Times
(newspaper) “New Zealand music,”

Ninety-third Evacuation Hospital

Ninth Marine Expeditionary Force

Ninth Viet Cong Division

Nixon, Richard

NLF.
See
National Liberation Front

NSA (National Student Association)

nuclear disarmament movement

Nui Nho (mountain)

Oakland Induction Center demonstrations

Oberdorfer, Michael: convicted of disorderly conduct; at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; police looking for; as third-generation Jewish student at UW; at Washington demonstration of October 1967

Obert, Edward F.

O’Brien, Ed

Office of Systems Analysis

Office of the Chief of Military History

officers: battles as seen by; changing of; en route to Vietnam; lack of seasoned; at Lai Khe

Officer’s Guide, The

Okinawa

O’Konski, Alvin

Olson, Jack

Operation Big Red

Operation Billings

Operation Cedar Falls

Operation Daniel Boone

Operation Junction City

Operation Manhattan

Operation Paul Bunyan

Operation Shenandoah II

Operation Tuscon

Operation Uniontown

Operation Yorktown

Ostroff, Steve

Pathet Lao

Peace Corps

peace movement.
See
antiwar movement

People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN): American troops opposing in 1965; combat planning of; entering South Vietnam; Lam joining; newspaper of

Pepper, William F.

Percy, Charles

Pettit, Tom

Phillips, Jimmy

Phillips, Raymond

Pickart, John

Pierre, Perry

Pipkin, Donald

Plier, Eugene

Pope Pourri
(ship’s newspaper)

Porter, Archie

poverty programs

Powers, Thomas

“Prayer for the Journey to the Battlefield, A,”

Price, Lee

Prince, A. K.

Project Gamma

pungi sticks

PX

Pyle, Ernie

Quint, Bert

Quixote
(magazine)

Ramparts
(magazine)

Rather, Dan

Razo, Jesús

Rear Service Group 83: and ambush of Black Lions; Lam in; as out of rice; in Viet Cong supply network

Reece, Ronnie

Reese, Tom

Reilly, Allan V.

Reiter, Michael

relevance

Rennebohm, Bob

Reston, James (Scotty)

Richter, Steve

riots, urban

Robb, Charles S.

Roberts, Juanita

rock music

Roehling, Al

Rohr, Harold (Babe)

Rolf, Ramon E.

Roseleip, Gordon

Rostow, Walter W.

ROTC

Route (Thunder Road)

Rowen, Jim; becomes Soglin’s mayoral chief of staff; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; on faculty meeting of October 19; later career of; marriage to Susan McGovern; on sit-in over the draft

Rusk, Dean: on Dirksen; Johnson expresses his pessimism about the war; on Kissinger negotiations; at meeting with Johnson on October 3; at Tuesday lunch, October 17; at war council of October 18

Rusk, Howard A.

Samp, Robert

Samson, Richard

San Francisco Mime Troupe; at Dow Chemical protest in Madison; leaves Madison for Iowa; in Minneapolis

Saporito, Jerry

Scheidenhelm, Richard

Schell, Jonathan

Schiro, George

Schroder, Eleanor Heil

Schroder, Jack; daily journal of; death of; en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; funeral of; identifying body of; at Lai Khe; machine gun training for; notifying his wife of his death; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; in operations of early October

Schultze, Charles L.

Schultze, James

Schuster, Frank (Kiko)

Schwartz, Ed

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman