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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07713 to 363-07717
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Title
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Article about mysterious threatening phone calls to family of American pilots
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Description
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Keever's title: "U.S. pilots bombing North Vietnam fret over Vietniks", article about mysterious threatening phone calls to mothers and wives of American pilots, for the New York Herald Tribune
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AI Usage Disclosure
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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(Morgan Gandy)
today,
Feb
ABOARD USS KITTY HAWK, DI OFF COAST OF NORTH VIETNAM-01230-(UBIS)
As merican strike aircraft continued to pound North Vietnamy
the second, secret fear of the pilots who survived was
the threatening, intimidating anonymous telephone calls being
received by their families from Vietniks.
"Some of our mothers and wives have been tax receiving
phone calls every hour on the hour all night long by people
using foul language," one pilot explaihe explained.
American public doesn't know about this."
"Even the
The pilot of an x three-million-dollar A6A repeat
A6A 11 weather attack Intruder who had flown in the first raids
a s airstrikes resumed against North Vietnam yesterday-said:
"The wives of two of my friends have been receiving phone calls,
saying in so many words,, 'Your husband is a fink for fighting
in Vietnam, Á
(More Malloy-ED)
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first add-morgan gandy-saigon
"The only reaction from the husband," he continuod "was to
get an unlisted phone number which he did."
Another Crusader pilot-as he finished receiving his briefing
in the ready room for his flight over North Vietnamsaid that
his wife had also been receiving anti-Vietnam phone calls, but,
he snapped, "I don't want to discuss it with anyone," " Ho, too,
had told his wife to obtain an unlisted phone number at home.
"We know that the USS Independence ran into some of this
when it pulled into home port," another pilot explained. "The
wives were tohizmetten telephoned and told not to meet the
ship because it was showing support for our activities in Vietnam."
All of the pilots rofused to give their names and more
important their home addresses to press correspondents.
Ono Naval information officer said that he had to request
twenty to twentyfive fighter pilots to appear on an upcoming
national American television program before finding one who would
volunteer.
(More Malloy FD)
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I I I would volunteer. "X X X
"Of course,
explained,
we pilots hesitate in talking to the press,"
"because we don't want to give our names and get a
big spread in the newspapers for the people back home to get it.
The Vietniks just look up the names in the telphone telephone
book, call up and cause turmoil in our families.
"Also, the enemy is using phy psychological warfare
and creating so much grief among the pilots if he is shot down
over enemy territory.
"The Vietniks have ways of procuring so much information
and feeding it to the Communists, which we haven't encountered
in past wars. So they're reluctant to say anything to the press."
(More Malloy-ED)
one
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x x x the press x x x
Another pilot of a Crusader--which features "computerized
bombing" against North Vietnam--said that his wife in Binghamton,
New York, had notrptnot encoutered any anonymous phone calls.
"The phone calls vary with the area of the country that the
one pilot explained. "It's not just
family is living ink in,"
New York or Pennsylvania.
It's not just the Kitty Hawkp-but other
ships as well. It's not just officers, but also some of the
enlisted men as well.
"The phone calls threaten in one way in Virginia, for ex
example, but in another area maybe it's just foul language and
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intimidation. One phí phone call from one group threatened
eventual harm to the family because the husband was over here
fighting and it wasn't our business to be over here.
None of the men like to talk about it--they just accept it as a
side hazard of the job."
(1 ore Malloy--BD)
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x x x the job x x x
Some of the pilots simply brushed off the importance of the
Vietniks within America; other pilots were bitter.
REFERRED to
The Crusader pilot from Binghamton, New York, called the
Vietniks as "the great unashee unwashed repeat unwashed back home."
Another Intruder pilot called them "ridiculous, but not dangerous-
just kinda stupid."
Another pilot bitterly remarked, "I wish they'd put the
Vietniks out here, give them a gun--and then we'd see if they'd
throw away the gun and pax put up piadad placards. Moro
lay around one Campus
Tesponsi D
Condit MALLEY -RD).
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Date
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1966, Feb. 12
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Air Force; Bombardment; Airmen; Air pilots, Military; Bombing, Aerial; Psychological warfare; Families of military personnel
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
