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Title:Description:Written by Ralph D. Nyland, chairman of the Draft Counseling Committee at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in DeWitt, New York.Creator:Nyland, Ralph D. (author)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors., Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church (De Witt, N.Y.)Topics:Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.Geographic subjects:United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284897
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Description:Letter addressed to Rev. L. William Yolton, Secretary of the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War, written by Gwen Patton Woods of the National Association of Black Students.Creator:Patton, Gwendolyn M., 1943- (author), Yolton, L. William (Leroy William), 1930- (addressee)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.Topics:Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.Geographic subjects:United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284880
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Description:Promotional materials for Friendshipment, an American civilian campaign inspired by the need for humanitarian assistance in Vietnam after the war.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Friendshipment (Campaign)Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Religious aspects--Christianity., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Civilian relief., Humanitarian assistance, American--Vietnam.Geographic subjects:Vietnam.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280837
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Description:Pictured is a "Notkirche" (church built from rubble) at Mannheim-Waldhof, American zone of Germany, at the time of cornerstone-laying ceremonies.Creator:Thorrelson. (photographer)Subject names:World Council of Churches., Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Church buildings--Germany., Cornerstone laying--Germany., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Germany., Interdenominational cooperation--Germany., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation--Germany.Geographic subjects:Germany--Buildings, structures, etc., Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147289
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Title:Description:Private First Class A.C. Maynard, on patrol near a rubber plantation about 40 miles north of Saigon, keeps his Bible dry by strapping it to his helmet with an elastic band.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Maynard, A. C.Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Jungle warfare., Soldiers, Black--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh CityGeographic subjects:Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147155
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Title:Description:U.S. infantrymen pray in the Vietnam jungle, Dec. 9, during memorial services for comrades killed in the Michelin Rubber Plantation Battle.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualities., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualities., Prayers for the dead--Vietnam., Soldiers--Vietnam.Geographic subjects:Bình Dương (Vietnam : Province)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147077
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Description:Hilfswerk worker welcomes disabled German war veterans to the home in the American zone.Creator:Thorkelson. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., Disabled veterans--Germany., Humanitarian assistance, American--Germany.Geographic subjects:Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147004
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Description:Oliver Davis Collins, of Latham, New York (L), an United States Army Infantry Squad Leader who participated in liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945 talks with Julian Noga of Utica, New York a former slave laborer at Flossenburg Concentration Camp at an Albany Interfaith prayer service sponsored by the Polish-American Congress Central District of New York State. The occasion marks the 35th Anniversary of the liberation of Dachau.Creator:Saidel, Rochelle G. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Dachau (Concentration camp), Polish American Congress., Noga, Julian, -1921., Collins, Oliver D., Norden, Martin., Silton, Paul B.Topics:World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.Geographic subjects:Albany (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146986
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Title:Description:Hanoi -- A North Vietnamese nun, Ntuyen Tkhi Choung, looks sadly at signs of war in Hanoi. The city's workers, unlike the nun, all bear arms. Ringed with anti-aircraft guns and missile sites, the city is on a constant alert for air raids.Creator:Daily express (London, England) (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service, Archives.Topics:Nuns--Vietnam--Hanoi., War--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Vietnam War, 1961-1975., War and society--Vietnam--Hanoi.Geographic subjects:Hanoi (Vietnam)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139021
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Description:Produced by the WRC-TV Community Affairs Department in association with the National Presbyterian Center and the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Guests of Dr. Lowell R. Ditzen, host, include: Rear Admiral Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.; Chaplain, Colonel Simon H. Scott, Jr.; Rev. A. Ray Appelquist.Creator:Ditzen, Lowell Russell, 1913-1987. (speaker), Hutcheson, Richard G., 1921-2012. (speaker), Scott, Simon H. (speaker), Appelquist, A. Ray. (speaker)Subject names:National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Council of Churches of Greater Washington (D.C.), WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)Topics:Military chaplains.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116517
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Description:George Teaz Jamieson was a Presbyterian chaplain, born 26 February 1907, died 4 September 1997.Creator:Jamieson, George Teaz, 1907-1997. (interviewee), Hinn, Cora Alfreda Pence, 1908-1982. (interviewer)Subject names:Jamieson, George Teaz, 1907-1997.Topics:Military chaplains.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116474
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Description:Ernest Norquist was a prisoner of war, held by the Japanese Army in the Philippines.Creator:Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004. (interviewee), Wicklein, Edward C. (interviewer)Subject names:Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004.Topics:World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116444
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Description:Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.Creator:Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)Topics:Persian Gulf War, 1991.Geographic subjects:Palestine., Iraq., Kuwait.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116408
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Title:Description:Radio play on Revolutionary War service of George Duffield, aired May 16, 1955, produced by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Broadcasting and Film Commission. Side 1: Chaplain Duffield, program 187, for broadcast the week of May 16, 1955. Episodes of the radio series, Let there be light.Subject names:Duffield, George, 1732-1790., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Department of Radio and Television., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Broadcasting and Film Commission.Geographic subjects:United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71697
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Description:Sermon and question-and-answer session on the Vietnam War, delivered at Rivermont Presbyterian Church (Lynchburg, Va.). Recorded by Mrs. R. McFerran Crowe. Calvin Thielman, born in Paris, Texas in 1930, was a longtime pastor of Montreat Presbyterian Church (Montreat, N.C.), chaplain of Montreat College, and associate of Billy Graham.Creator:Thielman, Calvin, 1930-2002. (speaker)Subject names:Rivermont Presbyterian Church (Lynchburg, Va.)Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975.Geographic subjects:Lynchburg (Va.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57386
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Description:Speakers at an anti-war rally [From left: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Henry Steel Commage, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. John C. Bennet].Creator:Goodwin, John C. (photographer)Subject names:King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives., Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.Topics:Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8020
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Title:Description:Death-bed of Lincoln. [print reproduction of a painting by John H. Littlefield; Reproduced through the courtesy of the Rosenbach Co.]Creator:Littlefield, John H. (artist)Subject names:Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Death and burial.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7058
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Title:Description:"NCC Draft Lottery" 29-39 GA-Detroit MI Nov. 30-Dec. 4 1969.Creator:John Fulton Photo/Art. (photographer)Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.Topics:Draft., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.Geographic subjects:Detroit (Mich.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4980