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The Peace Archives

The Power of Protest Interview with Jane Barton Griffith, in Washington D.C.

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Dartmouth Vietnam Project

Jane was interviewed on October 22nd, 2017 by Leigh Steinberg. She was interviewed for the Oral history program, spcifically the Dartmouth Vietnam Project.

Jane Griffith, an antiwar activist, describes how she came to oppose US involvement in the Vietnam War. Her opposition led her to volunteer to serve as director of the humanitarian programs of the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers) in Vietnam from 1970 to 1973. In this capacity, she oversaw a rehabilitation center for Vietnamese war victims in Quang Ngai province in South Vietnam.

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Romeo and Tuyet: A Love Story

After I heard Jerry and Tuyet’s story, I wanted the whole world to know about this remarkable love story between enemies, a story Jerry had recorded in English. As the 50^th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war was approaching, I thought that it would be a sentimental story that should be shared with the Vietnamese, an example of how two “enemy “individuals and two nations have reconciled.

The story of Jerry and “Barbara” is called Romeo and Tuyet and will be published in March 2025 in time for the 50^th celebration of the end of the VN war—the story of how two enemies married after holding love in their hearts for each other for 31 years.

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This Old House

This Old House episode of June 30, 1992 featured Jane Barton giving narrator Steve Thomas a tour of the US Treasury building, explaining the restoration of various parts of the building and meeting some of the artisans skillfully conducting the preservation work.

Treasury Building Section- 7:55 to 19:09.

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Webinar of WGBH

Jane Barton went to Vietnam with the American Friends’ Service Committee to work in a rehabilitation clinic and to observe the treatment of prisoners in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam. She describes evidence of torture and the complicity of the American government. She describes the damages inflicted on Vietnamese civilians by relocation programs and by landmines. Finally, she discusses the negative attitudes of the Vietnamese in her area towards the government of South Vietnam and the American presence.