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- 1990 (Creation)
- 1984 (Creation)
- 1979 (Creation)
- 1975 - 1976 (Creation)
- 1969 (Creation)
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Lt Gen William R Peers, biographical material research notes'. Material relating to Lt Gen William R Peers, head of the US Army inquiry into the scope of the original investigation of reports of a massacre at My Lai, 16 Mar 1968, including typescript and manuscript notes relating to the Peers Inquiry; letter from Joseph Lazarsky to Michael Bilton 23 Aug 1990, and notes of telephone conversation with Lazarsky [1990], relating to Peers' character; photocopy of Peers' obituary from the New York Times, 9 Apr 1984; photocopied extracts from The My Lai Inquiry, William R Peers, New York, Norton, 1979, including Chapter 17: The cover-up evidence: summary; extracts from The My Lai massacre and its cover-up: Beyond the reach of Law? The Peers Commission Report with a supplement and introductory essay on the limits of the law, Joseph Goldstein, Burke Marshall, Jack Schwartz, The Free Press, New York, 1976; photocopy of memorandum concerning the censoring of names in Volumes 2 and 4 of the Peers Inquiry report, for the protection individuals not previously publicly identified, 17 Mar 1975; notes on interviews with Christina Peers Neely, Peers' daughter, and Dr Carl Eifler, an Army colleague of Peers [1990]; letter from Jerome K Walsh, member of the Inquiry team, to Michael Bilton, 15 Aug 1990; transcript of radio interview given by Peers to KGO-Newstalk, San Francisco, 18 Jun 1979, and related papers.