POP BUELL, HOOSIER AT THE FRONT Part 1

Description

TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY: Bernard Kalb's interview with Edgar "Pop" Buell and Walter Cronkite's narrative reveals how and why a successful 52-year old farmer sells his farm, joined the International Voluntary Services in 1962, and became Area Coordinator for U.S. Agency for International Development in 1962, and came to be respected and loved by the villagers of Sam Thong Province, Laos, through his work restoring villages, resettling refugees, improving agricultural techniques, building a clinic and school.

Collection

General Records of the Department of State

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations