Collection Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Collection Summary
Title: Walter E. Shjeflo papers
Dates: 1976-1985
Collection Number: 2004C53
Creator: Shjeflo, Walter E.
Collection Size:
34 manuscript boxes
(13.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, legal records, and printed matter, relating to efforts to determine the fate and resolve the legal status
of American servicemen captured or missing in action during the Vietnamese War. Includes copies of military records and other
government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Walter E. Shjeflo papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2004.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Biographical/Historical Note
American lawyer; attorney for families of American servicemen captured or missing in action in the Vietnamese War.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, legal records, and printed matter, relating to efforts to determine the fate and resolve the legal status
of American servicemen captured or missing in action during the Vietnamese War. Includes copies of military records and other
government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Missing in action.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.
Prisoners of war.
United States Armed Forces Vietnam.