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Alexander Demitri "Alex" Shimk ...... s in Operation Speedy Express.
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1944-10-11
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1972-07-12
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28.013.852
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718.509.296
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Washington, D.C.
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Alexander Shimkin after he was arrested for civil rights activity in Alabama in 1965.
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_94MH ...... t perspective. Source: Corbis.
http://digital.archives.alabam ...... tment of Archives and History.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_HBVKhiKX ...... Source: Contact Press Images.
http://www.newseum.org/exhibit ...... courtesy of E. Shimkin-Sorock.
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investigating non-combatant casualties in Operation Speedy Express
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Demitri B. Shimkin
Edith Manning Shimkin
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''Alex Shimkin opened my eyes and showed me things about the war that
''Anything which is accomplished through making other people afraid is
I had missed even after nearly four years in Vietnam. Traveling with him
I have no right to be exempt from making sacrifices overseas.
and listening to him tell me what Vietnamese in the Mekong Delta were
saying, especially when they did not know he understood Vietnamese,
was one of the most informative and powerful experiences of my life.''
wrong. ... Anything which deprives other people of their dignity is wrong.''
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--Alexander D. Shimkin, oral history interview, 1965.
--Alexander D. Shimkin. Taken from his International Voluntary Services
--Kevin P. Buckley. Quoted by ...... posé That Wasn't", The Nation,
application by Mike Benge and ...... northwestvets.com/op-baby.htm.
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American journalist killed in ...... s in Operation Speedy Express.
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Alexander Demitri "Alex" Shimk ...... s in Operation Speedy Express.
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Alexander D. Shimkin
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Alexander
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Alexander D. Shimkin
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Alexander Demitri Shimkin
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