Chapter Fifteen: Write Hanoi and Silent Nights

  1.     “Apollo 14: Shepard Back in Space…” NASA website, July 8, 2009, accessed May 1, 2018, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo14.html.

  2.     Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, September 19–20, 2016.

  3.     Ibid.

  4.     “This Week Richmond,” local events guide, February 6–13, 1971, collection of Judi Clifford.

  5.     “1971 Mrs. Paul Galanti, Wife of Prisoner of War, Pleads for Prisoner Release,” YouTube video, 1:33, from a news report broadcast by WSLS TV on February 9, 1971, uploaded by nutty.archives, September 27, 2016, accessed June 16, 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6h-ik-bQA.

  6.     Brian Kelly, “A Fantastic Response: Richmond Citizens Write for POWs,” Sunday Star (Washington, DC), February 14, 1971, collection of Judi Clifford.

  7.     “Woman Here Uses Peace Group’s Aid,” article from unidentified Richmond, VA, newspaper, February 12, 1971, collection of Max Friedman.

  8.     Phyllis Galanti, report on Sweden trip, n.d., 2, folder 32, section 2, PEGP.

  9.     Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, September 19, 2016.

  10.   Ibid.

  11.   Nick Thimmesch, “Sweden and the POWs,” Colorado Springs Sun, June 24, 1971 (reprinted from Newsday, June 23, 1971), collection of Helene Knapp.

  12.   Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, September 19, 2016.

  13.   Phyllis Galanti to Frank Sieverts, March 21, 1971, folder 31 or 34, PEGP.

  14.   Ibid.

  15.   Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, January 5, 2016.

  16.   Phyllis Galanti, “Richmond Write Hanoi Delegation,” n.d., folder 32, section 2, PEGP.

  17.   Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, January 5, 2016.

  18.   Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, September 19, 2016.

  19.   Judi Clifford, in conversation with the author, January 5, 2016; Phyllis Galanti, report on Sweden trip, n.d., 2, folder 32, section 2, PEGP.

  20.   Judi Clifford, email message to author, January 29, 2018.

  21.   Richard Capen, email message to author, October 11, 2016.

  22.   Phyllis Galanti to Ross Perot, April 6, 1971, 2, folder 31, section 2, PEGP.

  23.   “May 27, 1971: Sweden Announces Support to Viet Cong,” This Day in History, History.com, accessed July 28, 2016, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sweden-announces-support-to-viet-cong.

  24.   Nick Thimmesch, “Sweden and the POWs,” Colorado Springs Sun, June 24, 1971 (reprinted from Newsday, June 23, 1971), collection of Helene Knapp.

  25.   General James D. Hughes to Honorable Robert Dole, U.S. Senate, May 19, 1971, Robert J. Dole Senate Papers, Constituent Relations 1969–1996, box 293, folder 18, REDASC.

  26.   Bob Dole to General James Hughes, May 21, 1971, Robert J. Dole Senate Papers, Constituent Relations 1969–1996, box 293, folder 18, REDASC.

  27.   Philip Galanti to Bob Dole, June 15, 1971, REDASC.

  28.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 176, SBSP.

  29.   Colorado Springs Advertiser and News article, August, 18, 1971, A-19, collection of Helene Knapp.

  30.   “Colorado Wives of U.S. Military POW’s-MIA’s Leave for Geneva-Paris Conventions,” clipping from unidentified newspaper, May 1971, collection of Helene Knapp.

  31.   Colorado Springs Advertiser and News article, August, 18, 1971, A-19, collection of Helene Knapp.

  32.   Helene Knapp, in conversation with the author, March 16, 2015.

  33.   Colorado Springs Advertiser and News article, August, 18, 1971, A-19, collection of Helene Knapp; Helene Knapp to Philip Habib, July 16, 1971, collection of Helene Knapp.

  34.   Rocky Mountain News (Denver) article, June 5, 1971, collection of Helene Knapp.

  35.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 180, SBSP; Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 388–89.

  36.   Katharine Graham, Personal History (New York: Vintage, 1998), 456–58; McNamara, In Retrospect, 280–82; “Pentagon Papers,” History.com, accessed April 1, 2018, www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/pentagon-papers.

  37.   Jordan Moran, “Nixon and the Pentagon Papers,” Miller Center, University of Virginia, accessed June 15, 2018, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/first-domino-nixon-and-the-pentagon-papers.

  38.   Helene Knapp, in conversation with the author, 2015–2018.

  39.   “POW Group Head Sees Hope for End to War,” Colorado Springs Sun, January 27, 1972, collection of Helene Knapp.

  40.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 180, SBSP.

  41.   Ibid., 181.

  42.   Ibid.

  43.   Carole Hanson Hickerson, in conversation with the author, April 11, 2018.

  44.   Carole Hanson Hickerson, email message to author, April 11, 2018.

  45.   Helene Knapp, “Helene’s Memoire from the Years 1946–1978” (unpublished memoir, n.d.), 10.

  46.   “Christmas Seals Tell World Story of Silent Nights,” Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, December 5, 1971, collection of Helene Knapp; “30,000 from Seals Presented,” Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, January 1972, collection of Helene Knapp.

  47.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 390.

  48.   Jane Denton to Phyllis Galanti, November 23, 1971, folder 32, section 2, PEGP.