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Steve Trimm Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-232

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, unpublished manuscript Resistance and Reconciliation and other memoirs, newspaper clippings, personal calendars, albums, books, subject files, videocassettes and DVDs, and photographs relating to the Vietnam War. Also includes material relating to the Persian Gulf War (1991) the Iraq War (2003-) and varied political and social developments in the United States, 1963-2008. Includeds extensive records from Trimm's Freedom of Information Act files. Correspondents include Jay Boss, Barbara Deming, Gloria Emerson, and George Swiers.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1963-2008

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Limitations on Accessing the Collection

The collection is open for research use.

Physical Access Note

All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.

Copyright and Rights Information

None.

Biographical Note

Steven Wayne Trimm was born in 1948 in North Dakota, and raised in upstate New York. In 1968 he was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and he was subsequently sentenced to prison for four years. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until the Canadian government offered amnesty for illegal immigrants in 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993). He appeared in the video From Albany to Saigon: Vietnam & the Capital Region (2006) (video URL: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2817458713/). Trimm has also authored an unpublished manuscript, Resistance and Reconciliation (1974). Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and anti-war organizations, including Witness for Peace.

Extent

3.5 Linear Feet (9 Boxes)

Additional Description

Overview

In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and anti-war organizations, including Witness for Peace.

Arrangement

This collection remains in the order given to it by the donor.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Steve Trimm, 2008 [Acc. 08A-050]; 2010 [Acc. 10A-075].

Related Materials

Witness for Peace Records (DG 149)

Separated Materials

Items removed to other parts of the Peace Collection include, Photographs, Audiovisul items, Books, Oversize document and poster, Memorabilia, Stickers.

Legal Status

Copyright to the Steve Trimm Papers and created by Steve Trimm has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Administrative Information

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

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