Douglas Pike, Vietnam scholar, dies at 77.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: May 16, 2002| Author: Lubman, Sarah | Copyright information

Douglas E. Pike, one of the nation's leading Vietnam scholars, died Monday, May 13 at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. He was 77.

Pike, a retired state department officer, was an internationally recognized authority on Vietnamese communism and the Viet Cong. He maintained the largest non-governmental archive of material about the Vietnam War and Indochina, a huge collection that has served as a resource for academics, diplomats, journalists and Vietnamese emi...

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