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From: Karin Zilla (karinz@certifiedemployment.com)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 11:54:53 PDT 

From: "Karin Zilla" <karinz@certifiedemployment.com>
Subject: RE: SLA-SF: Re: SLA-SF item
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:54:53 -0700
Message-ID: <NEBBLKCKOKHOCPLBEACCGEFFDIAA.karinz@certifiedemployment.com>

Lincoln,

Could you cite some articles/sources for the "story-behind-the-story?"
Sounds interesting.

Karin

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From: SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu [mailto:SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu]On
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SLA-

As information managers entrusted with a role in preserving some form of
history, you all should know that the story-behind-the-story of the Vietnam
show was the enormous pressure brought to bear on the Oakland Museum to
make it conform more to the wishes and views of the exile Vietnamese
community. The museum made some apparently bad choices in how it handled
things, which didn't help, but the final result raises important questions
about the role of an interest group in defining public debate. It's similar
to the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian a few years ago.

My two cents.

BTW, Librarians On The Air- I did a 45-minute interview on KPFA's "Against
the Grain" show Monday on Cuban posters and US labor art; an archived audio
file can be found at http://www.againstthegrain.org/

Lincoln Cushing

At 09:26 AM 9/21/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Rochelle,
>If you have room, you might mention this exhibit at the Oakland Museum of
>California, full of primary documents and accounts:
>
>"The 7000-square-foot exhibition includes more than 500 historical
>artifacts, photographs and documents interwoven with film clips, music,
>and oral histories, many contributed from veterans and former refugees.
>The exhibition covers the period from the Cold War of the 1950s to the
>present, with emphasis on the decade from President Johnson's escalation
>of the Vietnam War in 1965 through the war's end, in 1975." (this text is
>from the web site)
>
>http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_whats_going_on.html
>
>It'll run till late February.
>
>--Chris Orr

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