COLLECTION FINDING AID



SEA-LAND SERVICE, INC.:

COLLECTED MATERIALS CONCERNING THE MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT, 1975




SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

Audio tapes and photocopies of interview transcripts and notes relating to the Mayaguez incident.The bulk of the material concerns interviews with Mayaguez crew conducted by Donald O'Hare of Sea-Land Service, Inc., in the days following their release.The collection also contains notebooks prepared by Roy Rowan while conducting research for his book Four Days of the Mayaguez (apparently including his own interviews with Mayaguez crew), as well as possible chapter drafts.

QUANTITY
1.0 linear foot (ca. 1000 pages, 20 audio tapes)

DONOR
Sea-Land Service, Inc. (accession number 95-NLF-036 and 95-NLF-037). The Sea-Land interview transcripts and Roy Rowan's notes were copied from the Roy Rowan Papers and given to the Library through the courtesy of Dartmouth College.

ACCESS
Open.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright is presumed to remain with Sea-Land Service, Inc, and Roy Rowan.

Prepared by Jennifer Sternaman, September 1995
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CONTAINER LIST

Box 1 - Audio Tapes

  • Audio Tapes

Box 1 (Continued) - Roy Rowan Mayaguez File

  • General
  • Interview Transcripts
    - Bayless, Gerald
    - Coombes, Burton (3rd Officer)
    - English, David (3rd Mate)
    - Faria, Americo
    - Greenlin, Vernon (1st Engineer)
    - Guerrero, Carlos (Fireman)
    - Harrington, Clifford
    - Lopez, Gerardo
    - Matthews, Tyrone
    - Minichiello
    - Miller Charles (Captain)
    - Myregard, Jared Clifford (2nd Mate)
    - Newman, James Patric
    - Omer, Munasser Thabit (Officer's Messman)
    - Rappenecker, Alfred J. (3rd Engineer)
    - Salah, Kassam
    - Sanchez, Juan Pacheco
    - Sereno, Anastacio (Seaman)
    - Notebooks (1)-(8)

Box 2 - Roy Rowan Mayaguez File

  • Notebooks (9)-(15)