United States. Navy

Scope and Contents Interview with Cheryl Knowles (Cheryl Dinning), Petty Officer First Class, United States Navy. In her interview, Dinning discusses her enlistment, basic and advanced training, and four deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Knowles also discusses life in the Navy, including shipboard life, as well as what it was like serving in the Navy as a lesbian during the Don't Act, Don't Tell era, and how it forced her to lead a double life and impacted her ability to be her genuine self and to grieve...

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Library holdings are May to August, 1963.

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In her interview, Joanne Tawfillis discusses her career working as a civilian employee of the military, as well as her work with the United Nations, IAEA, and the Women of Srebrenica Project. Tawfilis also discusses the creation of the Art Miles Mural Project, the Muramid Arts and Cultural Center, and her thoughts on art as a vehicle for healing, empathy, and peace.

Scope and Contents "Patient Suvives Balboa -- Barely" [intolerable conditions at Balboa Naval Hospital]; "Racism Revealed at Pendleton" [Charles E. Knox of the Congressional Black Caucus visited Camp Pendleton to talk with Black Marines about racism in the military]; "Reader's Soapbox"; "Unknown Man Succeeds Councilwoman" [F. Gilbert Johnson chosen by San Diego City Council to replace Helen Cobb, who resigned; demonstrations ensued]; "Manslaughter Charged in Abortion" [Sarasota, FL]; "Marvel Introduces Hung-Up...

Scope and Contents "Shorts"; "Del Mar 3 Sentenced" [sentencing of Peter Bohmer, Peter Mahone, and Bill Haiber, anti-war protestors, for obstructing a railroad (Bohmer and Mahone) and burning property (Haiber); Mahone and Haiber were sentenced to 150 days and 30 days in jail, respectively. Bohmer, a former professor, was sentenced to 90 days of phsychiatric testing at Chino State Prison and then, depending on results, up to 5 years in prison.]; "SAO sniper sent up [Secret Army Organization member George...

Scope and Contents "Are Drug Addicts Financing Land Development in San Diego?" [part one of a two-part series; relationship between land development and oraganized crime; Irvin Kahn; Morris Shenker; ]; "Shorts"; "police spy snagged" [alias David Ernest Bainum, tried to inflitrate local chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW); "hard times..." [local media blackout re: CREEP spy Donald Segretti; includes reprinted article from New York Times, "F.B.I Informer Is Linked to Right-Wing Violence"; Howard...

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Photograph album with 147 snapshots taken by sailor Dean Dickson of the USS Wyoming, likely just after the end of World War One.

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Elmer Williams is a retired US Naval Aviator who served during the Korean War. During the conflict Williams conducted a solo dogfight against seven soviet pilots and was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.