After Vietnam Visit
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Photograph
After Vietnam Visit
June 22, 1971
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.7 x 23.1 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Paper: 17.9 x 24.4 cm (7 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0007
Inscriptions verso (typed on attached sheet): A9348(NY10) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / AFTER VIETNAM VISIT [circled in ink with the notation "V. War"] / ROBERT S. MC NAMARA, CENTER, THEN SECRETARY / OF DEFENSE, ARRIVED IN HONOLULU IN MARCH / 1964, WITH GEN. MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, LEFT, / AFTER A FACT-FINDING MISSION IN SOUTH / VIETNAM. AT RIGHT IS ADM. HARRY D. FELT, THEN COMMANDER OF U.S. FORCES IN THE / PACIFIC. THE BOSTON GLOBE REPORTED IN / JUNE 22 EDITION THAT ADM. FELT, IN JUNE, / 1964, DEMANDED THAT U.S. COMMANDERS IN / SOUTH VIETNAM BE GIVEN THE FREEDOM TO / USE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE GLOBE / CITING EXCERPTS FROM A PENTAGON STUDY / OF HAVING TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS "AT / SOME POINT," AT THE JUNE, 1964 MEETING. / LL/JC 9a 6/22/1971 ELS 48 / NYWS ET NSL FRN MGS WW
