The Eugene Vietnam Anti-War Movement Oral History Project was conducted from 2023 to 2025 by Martin J. Bennett, Instructor Emeritus of History at Santa Rosa Junior College, with technical support from archivist Nathan Georgitis. The collection comprises sound recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with 19 people who were active in the Vietnam anti-war movement in Eugene, Oregon or at the University of Oregon, circa 1969 to 1973. Interviewees include those who were university students, faculty members, community members, and veterans at that time. The interviews focus on topics, events, and organizations relating to the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement in Eugene. Prominent topics include local and national anti-war protests and actions, including sit-ins and teach-ins, draft resistance and draft card burning, marches and demonstrations, strikes and boycotts, guerrilla theater and mock trials, civil disobedience, and violent activism. Prominent organizations include Selective Service System, Students for a Democratic Society, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, The Revolutionary Union, New Mobilization Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Eugene Augur, 1968 Democratic National Convention, Radical Action Theater Troupe, Associated Students of the University of Oregon, University of Oregon Senate, and University of Oregon Administration

Collection banner and card image are from the Laura J. Bock Papers, 1962-1969, in University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives and show a student anti-war protest at the University of Oregon in 1966. (Laura J. Bock papers, 1962-1969, University of Oregon. (02 Apr 2025). Anti-Vietnam War protest Eugene, Oregon photographs [b001] [f011] [002a] Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df73bc925.)