Chapter Twelve: Don’t Mess with Texas

  1.     “Perot to Fly to Moscow in Attempt to Aid POWs,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 28, 1969, folder 113, PEGP.

  2.     H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America (Brooklyn, NY: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992), 50.

  3.     Van Atta, With Honor, 208.

  4.     “Perot to Fly to Moscow.”

  5.     Sybil Stockdale, oral history interview with Steven L. Smith, June 8, 2000, in Smith, “Reluctant Sorority.”

  6.     Sallie Stratton, email messages to author, May 2, 2018.

  7.     Franklin, M.I.A., 50.

  8.     “Perot to Fly to Moscow.”

  9.     Estimate from archivist for Braniff Airlines, March 25, 2018.

  10.   “The Perot Mission” (January–April 1970), disc 4 of United We Stand DVD series, produced by Braniff et al., H. Ross Perot private collection.

  11.   Ibid.; Braniff Flying Colors (@braniffflyingcolors), “Braniff History Today,” Facebook, December 22, 2017, www.facebook.com/braniffflyingcolors/posts/braniff-history-today-on-this/1444737182262249. “The ‘second aircraft’ dubbed ‘Goodwill Toward Men’ never actually existed as far as I can tell. Newspaper articles imply there was a second A/C ‘assigned and waiting’ but I have never been able to confirm. In fact, more than one person involved has told me that Braniff had yet to assign a second aircraft or charter number as they were waiting for word from abroad and it became clear fairly quickly they were not going to Hanoi! So Perot did not want to needlessly spend the money on a second charter aircraft. I do still wonder about all of this and have not yet ruled out the possibility that an aircraft was at least assigned.”

  12.   Fred Powledchs, “H. Perot Pays His Dues,” New York Times, February 28, 1971.

  13.   Libby Craft, Perot historian, email message to author, March 26, 2018.

  14.   “The Perot Mission,” United We Stand, disc 4, H. Ross Perot private collection.

  15.   Grubb and Jose, You Are Not Forgotten, 114–15.

  16.   Richard Capen, email message to author, March 1, 2018.

  17.   Kathleen Johnson Frisbie, in conversation with the author, October 3, 2017.

  18.   Bruce Johnson, in conversation with the author, April 5, 2018.

  19.   Goodwin, “Black and White in Vietnam.”

  20.   Marc Leepson, in conversation with the author, June 15, 2018.

  21.   Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss, Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation (New York: Knopf, 1978), 49.

  22.   Mark Leepson, ed., Webster’s New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War (New York: Macmillan, 1999), s.v. “African-American,” 5.

  23.   “About the Agency,” Selective Service System, accessed August 4, 2018, www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/Induction-Statistics.

  24.   Sarena F. Goodman and Adam M. Isen, “Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation’s Labor Market,” Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-119 (Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2015), accessed August 4, 2018, www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/2015119pap.pdf.

  25.   Moreau, Waiting Wives, 151.

  26.   Kathleen Johnson Frisbie, in conversation with the author, October 3, 2017.

  27.   Kathleen Johnson Frisbie, in conversation with the author, March 18, 2018.

  28.   Bruce Johnson, in conversation with the author, April 5, 2018.

  29.   “Braniff Was Beautiful,” 2, in “The B1 B-liner” (January–April 1970), disc 1 of United We Stand DVD series, produced by Braniff et al., collection of H. Ross Perot; Kathleen Johnson Frisbie, in conversation with the author, March 18, 2018.

  30.   Kathleen Johnson Frisbie, in conversation with the author, March 18, 2018.

  31.   Kathleen Johnson Frisbie, in conversation with the author, October 3, 2017.

  32.   Andrea Rander, in conversation with the author, June 29, 2018.

  33.   Bruce Johnson, in conversation with the author, April 5, 2018.

  34.   James Bond Stockdale, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2000), 28.

  35.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 132, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  36.   Nancy Zaroulis, Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963–1975 (New York: Henry Holt, 1985), 337.

  37.   “POW Wives Reply to Von Hoffman,” letter to the editor, from Barbara P. Ondrasik, Washington Post, May 19, 1970, Cora Weiss Papers (DG 222), SCPC.

  38.   Clinton, Loyal Opposition, 170.

  39.   Ted Sienicki, in conversation with the author, December 18, 2015.

  40.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 133, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  41.   “Greetings from the Committee of Liaison,” statement of Ethel Taylor to the Pennsylvania National League of Families, n.d., Cora Weiss Papers (DG 222), SCPC.

  42.   Clinton, Loyal Opposition, 15.

  43.   Ibid., 167.

  44.   “Reaction Mixed on Prisoner List,” Evening Tribune (San Diego), November 27, 1969, box 4, SBSP.

  45.   Louise Mulligan to Ethel Taylor, November 23, 1969, Cora Weiss Papers (DG 222), SCPC.

  46.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 133, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  47.   Hearings on Restraints to Travel in Hostile Areas, H.R. 1594 (Clean Bill H.R. 8023), H.R. 278, H.R. 297, H.R. 2691, H.R. 3999, H.R. 6047, before the Committee on Internal Security, 93rd Cong., May 9–10, 1973, 3–4, collection of Max Friedman.

  48.   Ted Sienicki, email message to author, February 16, 2018.

  49.   Grubb and Jose, You Are Not Forgotten, 117.

  50.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 141, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  51.   James T. Yenckel, “335-Name List of POWs Regarded as Incomplete,” Washington Post, June 27, 1970, collection of Max Friedman.

  52.   Marie Estocin, email message to author, February 21, 2018; Marie Estocin, in conversation with the author, February 22, 2018.

  53.   Grubb and Jose, You Are Not Forgotten, 117.

  54.   Ibid., 134.

  55.   Various references to COLIAFAM in collection of Louise Mulligan; SBSP; PEGP; JJDPC.

  56.   Hearings on Restraints to Travel in Hostile Areas, H.R. 1594 (Clean Bill H.R. 8023), H.R. 278, H.R. 297, H.R. 2691, H.R. 3999, H.R. 6047, before the Committee on Internal Security, 93rd Cong., May 9–10, 1973, 3–4, collection of Max Friedman.