Fred Wilcox - Scorched Earth

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1. Vietnam Association v. Dow Chemical, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, March 18, 2004, 23.

2. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mortality among Vietnam Veterans in Massachusetts, 1972–1983 , Report for the Veterans Administration, Washington, DC.

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4. L. P. H. Anderson et al., Wisconsin Vietnam Veteran Mortality Study , Madison, WI, Division of Health, 1985.

5. A. P. Holmes, West Virginia Vietnam-Era Veterans Mortality Study , Charleston, West Virginia Health Department, no date.

6. M. J. Fett et al., Australian Veterans Health Studies: The Mortality Report (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984.)

7. Ed Kozel, Agent Orange Primer (No publisher given, 2009), 23.

8. Constantine P. Korkkoris, Amended Class Action Complaint, MDL 381, 48.

9. Michael Palmer, Project MUSE, Scholarly Journal Online , 176.

10. L. W. Dwernychuk, et al., “Dioxin Reservoirs in Southern Vietnam: A Legacy of Agent Orange,” Chemosphere 47 (2002): 117–137.

11. Korkkoris, “Complaint,” 49.

12. Jack B. Weinstein, “Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation: Memorandum, Order, and Judgment.” MDL No. 381, O4-CV-400, 42.

13. Unclassified cable from US ambassador in Vietnam to Secretary of State, Washington, DC, February 16, 2003.

14. Kenn Hermann, “Agent Orange research canceled: ‘A series of lies, deceit and blackmail,’” Political Affairs Magazine , April 2005.

15. Weinstein, “Memorandum,” 43.

16. Ibid., 43–44.

17. Ibid., 45.

18. Fred A. Wilcox, Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011), 127.

19. Ibid., 128.

20. Ibid., 128.

21. Ibid.

22. Weinstein, “Memorandum,” 17.

23. Ibid., 192.

24. Gerson Smoger, interview by Thanh Nien News , no date.

25. Wilcox, Uncommon Martyrs , (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991), 95–96.

26. Weinstein, “Memorandum,” 155.

27. Weinstein, “Memorandum,” 182–4.

28. Ibid., 183.

29. Ibid., 178.

30. Ibid., 178.

31. Ibid., 181–2.

32. “Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss All Claims in Plaintiffs’ Amended Class Action Complaint for Lack of Jurisdiction over the Subject Matter and for Failure to State a Claim upon Which Relief Can Be Granted,” US District of New York, 2005, 6–19.

1. Dr. Professor Tran Xuan Thu, “Comments From the Scientists on the Consequences of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam,” Proceedings, The International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange, Hanoi, March 28–29, 2006, 18–19.

2. Fred A. Wilcox, Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange , (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011), 53.

3. Ibid., 53.

4. Ibid., 54.

5. Louise Edwards, “Genetic Damage in New Zealand Vietnam War Veterans,” Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Massey University, 2006, 15.

6. Ibid., 1.

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2. Transcript of Preliminary Hearing Before The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, United States District Judge, Vietnamese Class Action Suit, United States District Court, March 18, 2004, 16–19.

3. Ibid., 24.

4. Jack B. Weinstein, Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation: Memorandum, Order, and Judgment, MDL No. 381, O4-CV-400, 44.

5. Wayne Dwernychuk, Interview with Thahn Nien News , August 8, 2009.

6. “Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss All Claims in Plaintiffs’ Amended Class Action Complaint for Lack of Jurisdiction over the Subject Matter and for Failure to State a Claim upon Which Relief Can Be Granted,” US District of New York, 2005, 62.

7. Weinstein, “Memorandum,” 156–165.

1. Tom Mangold and John Penycate, The Tunnels of Chu Chi (New York: Ballantine, 1985.)

2. Ibid.

3. Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (New York: Penguin, 1983), 213.

4. Fred A. Wilcox, Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011), 172.

5. Ngo D. Anh et al., “Association between Agent Orange and birth defects: Systematic Review and meta-analysis,” International Journal of Epidemiology 35 (2006): 1220–1230.

6. Ibid., 1227.

7. Wilcox, Waiting for an Army to Die , 55.

8. Ibid.

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2. Ibid., 60.

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4. Thomas Whiteside, The Withering Rain: America’s Herbicidal Folly (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971), 13–14.

5. Daniel Shea, “Their Deaths Require Justice and the Living Victims Need To be Compensated and We All Must work to End the Insanity of War,” International Conference Of Victims Of Agent Orange/Dioxin, March 28–29, 2006, 62.

6. J. B. Neilands, Harvest of Death (New York: Free Press, 1972), 200.

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