Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University
Descriptive Summary
George Mason University.Special Collections and Archives.
Lynch, Edwin Williams, 1913-2004
Edwin W. Lynch Vietnam War protest collection
1965-1975
C0080
6 linear feet
(4 boxes)
English
The collection provides information on the discontent and disillusionment which came to exist among some segments of the American people as a result of American military intervention in Southeast Asia. The collection covers the period of time ranging from 1965 to 1975, with the bulk of the material from the years 1967 to 1971.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Edwin W. Lynch Vietnam War protest collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Preferred Citation
Edwin W. Lynch Vietnam War protest collection, C0080, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Collection donated by Edwin W. Lynch in 1983.
Processing Information
Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed in March 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty.
Biographical Information
Born in Annandale, Virginia, in 1913, Edwin Williams Lynch, a prominent Northern Virginia real estate businessman, served as Fairfax County delegate to the Virginia General Assembly from 1945 to 1947 and again from 1949 to 1954. For more than 50 years, Lynch participated in the George Mason University community. As a George Mason University Foundation trustee and an ICAR advisory board member and chairman, Lynch supported a framework of programs that have ensured a margin of excellence and distinction for ICAR. In 1987 Lynch endowed the first chair and an annual lecture series, in memory of his parents, Vernon and Minnie. The following year, he helped to establish the doctoral program, the first in the world. In 1996, Lynch and his wife, Helen, created the John W. Burton Endowment, named for one of ICAR's most distinguished professors. Lynch died in 2004.
Scope and Content
The collection provides information on the discontent and disillusionment which came to exist among some segments of the American people as a result of American military intervention in Southeast Asia. The collection covers the period of time ranging from 1965 to 1975, with the bulk of the material from the years 1967 to 1971.
The collection consists of a variety of materials relating to the Vietnam War including pamphlets, booklets, correspondence, posters, reprint articles, newspaper clippings, various antiwar publications, and the minutes of meetings of several antiwar groups. These items are arranged by subject heading in alphabetical order, and the material within the individual files is arranged in chronological order. Much of the information contained in the Collection relates to the activities of various groups that were formed to protest the American involvement in Vietnam, groups representing such disparate segments of the population as the clergy and business executives. While this information manages to give us a good view of the antiwar movement in the United States as both a local and a national phenomenon, the collection is particularly valuable for the information it provides on the work of local groups based in and concerned with the Washington D.C. area, including Northern Virginia.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged by alphabetically by subject.
Adjunct Descriptive Data
Related Material
Special Collections and Archives also holds other collections with materials on the Vietnam War including the , the , and the
Index Terms
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
Contents List
Edwin M. Lynch Vietnam War protest collection
American for Democratic Action "World"
5/67,
12/71
1
1
Americans for Democratic Action
1/72,
2/72
2
1
Anti-Draft Activities
3
1
Anti-War Activities Within the U.S. Armed
Forces, Admirals and Generals opposed to the Conflict
in Vietnam
4
1
Anti-War Activities Within the U.S. Armed
Forces G.I.'s opposed to the Conflict in
Vietnam
5
1
Anti-War Activities Within the U.S. Armed
Forces G.I.'s opposed to the Conflict in Vietnam (
The "Presidio 29")
6
1
Anti-War Activities within the U.S. Armed
Forces Veterans opposed to the Conflict in
Vietnam
7
1
Anti-War Movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area Activities of
Religions, Groups
8
1
Anti-War Movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area
Demonstrations
9
1
Anti-War Movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area
Miscellaneous
10
1
Anti-War Movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area Northern Virginia
Coalition to End the Air War
11
1
Anti-War movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area Northern Virginia
Moratorium Committee
12
1
Anti-War Movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area Washington Area Peace
Action Coalition
13
1
Anti-War Movement in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan Area Washington Peace Center
Newsletter
14
1
Business Executives Move For New National
Priorities (1974-1975) Formerly Business Executives
Move for Vietnam Peace
15
1
Business Executives Move For Vietnam Peace
Activities Relating to Political
Elections
16
1
Business Executives for Vietnam Peace
Efforts to influence the resident and Members of
Congress
10/67 -
3/69
17
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Effort to influence the President and Member of
Congress
6/69 -
10/69
18
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Effort to influence the President and Members of
Congress
4/70 -
5/72
19
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Meetings
1967,1968
20
1
Business Executives Move For Vietnam Peace
Meetings
1969
21
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Meetings
1971,1972
22
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Miscellaneous
1067,1972
23
1
Business Executive Move for Vietnam Peace
Miscellaneous (Undated)
24
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
"news Notes" (1068,1070
1968,1970
25
1
Business Executive Move for Vietnam Peace
"news Notes" (1971)
1971
26
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
"News Nots" (1972)
1972
27
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
"New Notes"
1973
28
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Participation in Demonstrations for Vietnam
Peace
29
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
Radio and Television Advertisement
30
1
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
" Reprint Articles"
31
1
Businessmen Education Fund (1069-1071)
1969-1971
32
1
Businessmen Educational Fund
(undated)
33
1
Clergy and Laity Concerned (Formerly
Clergy and Lay men Concerned about
Vietnam)
1
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report" (12/04/72)
2
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report" (
2/26/73,
3/25/73
3
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned " American
Report"
5/21/73 -
6/18/73
4
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
7/2/73 -
7/30/73
5
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
8/13/73 -
9/22/73
6
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
10/15/73 -
10/29/73
7
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
11/121/73 -
12/10/73
8
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned " American
Report"
1/21/74 -
3/18/74
9
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
4/15/74 -
4/29/74
10
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
5/13/74 -
6/10/74
11
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
7/8/74 -
7/22/74
12
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned "American
Report"
9/15/74 -
11/26/74
13
2
Clergy and Laity Concerned Washington Area
Chapter
14
2
Clergy and Laymen
15
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
10/70
16
2
Concerned about Vietnam Anti-Ballistic
Missile opposition
15
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"i
12/70
16
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
11/70 -
12/70
17
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
1/71 -
2/71
18
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" American Report"
3/71 -
7/2/71
19
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
7/9/71 -
10/6/71
20
2
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
10/15/71 -
11/5/71
1
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
11/18/71 -
11/25/71
2
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" American Report
1x/71
3
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
1/21/72 -
2/4/72
4
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" American Report"
2/11/72 -
2/25/72
5
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned " American
Report"
3/3/72 -
3/24/72
6
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American rEPORT"
3/31/72 -
11/21/72
7
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" American Report"
4/28/72 -
5/26/72
8
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"American Report"
6/2/72 -
6/23/72
9
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" American Report"
6/30/72 -
9/1/72
10
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
Amnesty for draft resistors
11
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
Demonstrations for Peace
12
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
Fact Sheets on War (casualty figures, troop
withdrawal, information, etc..)
13
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
Honeywell Inc. (Protests against)
14
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Issues and Actions" (Newsletter of 10/68 - 6/69)
10/68 -
8/69
15
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Issues and Actions" (newsletters of 11/69 - 6/70)
11/69 -
6/70
16
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"Memoranda and news notes
10/27/67 -
12/9/68
17
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Memoranda"
1/14/69 -
5/16/69
18
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"Memoranda"
7/18/69 -
9/9/69
19
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Memoranda
10/1/69 -
11/21/69
20
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" memoranda"
1/7/70 -
6/12/70
21
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
"Miscellaneous"
1967 -
1973
22
3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Miscellaneous" (undated)
1
4
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Poster Service"
3/69 -
3/70
2
4
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Poster Services"
4/70 -
9/70
3
4
Clergy and laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Reprint Articles'
1967 -
1968
4
4
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Reprint Articles"
1968 -
1970
5
4
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
" Statements of Position
6
4
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
Virginia activities
7
4
Committee of Responsibility to save
War-buried and injured Vietnamese
children
8
4
Congress of the united States
Congressional Record
4/67 -
5/70
9
4
Congress of the United States Individual
Members of Congress
10
4
Congress of the United States
Miscellaneous
11
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Business
Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
1967 -
1068
12
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Business
Executive s Move for Vietnam Peace
1968
13
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Business
Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
1969
14
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Business
Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
1970 -
1975
15
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Clergy and
Laity Concerned
16
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Clergy and
Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
17
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Letters to
the editor
1967
18
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Letters to
the editor
1968
19
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch
Miscellaneous
1967
20
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch
Miscellaneous
1958 -
1969
21
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch
Miscellaneous
1970 -
1974
22
4
Rett Dorr
1/67 -
7/67
23
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Reverend
Everett Dorr
8/67
24
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Reverend
Dorr
10/67 -
12/68
25
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch Reverend
Everett Dorr
1969
-1071
26
4
Correspondence of Edwin Lynch
SANE
27
4