99 results for: Vietnam War, 1955-1975
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Oral history interview with Giovanni Costigan, 1985
Giovanni Costigan (1905–1990) was a noted historian and popular lecturer, and a specialist in Irish and English history. Costigan attended the University of Oxford, and University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he earned his PhD. Costigan taught at the University of Wisconsin and Idaho State University before joining the history department at the University of Washington in 1934. He retired…
ID Number:1985.135.6
Date:1985
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March against the Vietnam War, Seattle, October 16, 1965
Seattle's first major anti-war demonstration took place in October 1965, when around 400 people marched through downtown Seattle to protest increasing US involvement in the Vietnam War. Organized by the Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SCEWV) and the University of Washington chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the demonstration marched down 4th Avenue from the…
ID Number:1986.5.11209.2
Date:1965
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Protestors and police on I-5, Seattle, May 5, 1970
Thousands of protesting University of Washington students and faculty members blocked Interstate 5 for nearly an hour as they marched to a rally at the U.S. Courthouse downtown. The crowd had gathered on campus to demand that the university take a moral stand against the killing of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen and the bombing of Cambodia…
ID Number:1986.5.52212.1
Date:1970
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Anti-war march, Seattle, May 5, 1970
Anti-war demonstrators carry an American flag upside down as they march from the University of Washington campus to the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle. Similar demonstrations took place on campuses all over the country after 4 Kent State University students were shot by the Ohio National Guard while protesting the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Signs in image: National Student Strike!…
ID Number:1986.5.52219.1
Date:1970
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Anti-war demonstration at federal courthouse, Seattle, May 5, 1970
Anti-war demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle after marching from the University of Washington campus. Similar demonstrations took place on campuses all over the country in protest of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Four Kent State University students protesting this same issue were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard. Handwritten on sleeve: Federal Court House;…
ID Number:1986.5.52235.1
Date:1970
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Grave of Lewis Albanese visited by his mother and sister on Memorial Day, May 30, 1968
This image of Rosita Albanese, 16, and Mrs. Giannina Albanese was taken as they arrange flowers on the grave of local hero PFC Lewis Albanese (1946-1966). Born in Itlay, Lewis grew up in Seattle and graduated from Franklin High School. He worked for Boeing before joining the Army in October 1965, and was sent to Vietnam in August 1966 as…
ID Number:2000.107.005.29.01
Date:1968
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Alexander Chau, left, welcomes his family from Vietnam, Seattle, July 16, 1977
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. This image shows the Chau family in Seattle. From left: son Alexander, daughter Le Phuong,…
ID Number:2000.107.034.29.01
Date:1977
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Hoang Xuan Thuy and family at Sea-Tac Airport, January 17, 1990
South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975. After ten years of negotiation between the Communist regime and the US government, the US agreed to accept some of the former South Vietnamese officials and military personnel who had spent years in North Vietnamese “reeducation” camps. Their families were allowed to come with them.Hoang Xuan Thu, a South…
ID Number:2000.107.089.21.01
Date:1990
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Huynh family waiting to greet family from Vietnam at Sea-Tac Airport, March 25, 1985
In April 1975, Phuoc Huynh and his wife Minh Chanh were among the thousands of Vietnamese people who fled the country at the end of the Vietnam War. Huynh had worked for the US Embassy in Saigon and feared persecution for his association with the South Vietnamese government and the US. Huynh and Chanh escaped to the US, but were…
ID Number:2000.107.095.05.01
Date:1985
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Minh Chanh and Phuoc Huynh at Cafe Loc, Seattle, September 20, 1978
In the 1970s, Vietnamese food was unfamiliar to most Americans. In Seattle, this began to change with the opening of several small Vietnamese restaurants. One of these, Café Loc, was located at 407 Broad Street, near Seattle Center. By 1978, the restaurant was doing well. Owner-cook Minh Chanh Huynh and her husband Phuoc Huynh had met in their native Vietnam,…
ID Number:2000.107.095.05.02
Date:1978