Oral history interview with Jim Heiden [electronic resource]

Biographical Note

Veteran.

Scope and Contents

Basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, July-August, 1967; sent to Vietnam January 1968; transportation operations in Vietnam; Tet offensive, 1968; black market operations in Vietnam; racial relations among United States soldiers in Vietnam; effects of political events in United States soldiers in Vietnam during 1968; return to United States, application for conscientious objector status.

Subjects

• African American soldiers.
• Heiden, Jim--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Smith, Clark, 1934- interviewer.
• Tet Offensive, 1968.
• United States. Army. Infantry.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975.