Branfman, Fred

LC control no.	n 80017774
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Branfman, Fred *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Branfman, Fredric R. Branfman, Fredrick Robert
Associated place	Washington (D.C.)
Located	Budapest (Hungary) Laos California
Birth date	1942-03-18
Death date	2014-09-24
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Budapest (Hungary)
Field of activity	Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements United States--Politics and government California--Politics and government Economic development Social movements
Affiliation	Indochina Resource Center Rebuild America (Program)
Profession or occupation	Pacifists Political activists Social reformers California--Officials and employees
Found in	His Voices from the Plain of Jars ... Laos : voices from beneath the earth : recollections of five years under American bombs, c1971: t.p. (Fredric R. Branfman) Washington post WWW site, Oct. 6, 2014 (Fred Branfman, the first person to draw public attention to a previously unknown U.S. bombing campaign inside Laos during the Vietnam War and who later became a leading antiwar activist in Washington, died Sept. 24 [2014] in Budapest, where he had lived for several years; he was 72; Fredrick Robert Branfman was born March 18, 1942, in New York City; moved to Laos as an education adviser in 1967; deported from Laos in 1971; edited a collection of writings and artworks by Laotian refugees, “Voices from the Plain of Jars” (1972), which highlighted the devastation of the air war in Laos; in Washington, Mr. Branfman founded the Indochina Resource Center, an information service that was allied with the antiwar movement; in the mid-1970s, Mr. Branfman moved to California, where he became active in the solar energy movement and served as research director for the failed Senate campaign of former Chicago Seven defendant Tom Hayden; research director for California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) from 1979 to 1983 and helped coordinate the state's outreach to the early high-tech pioneers of Silicon Valley; returned to Washington in the mid-1980s to work on the presidential campaign of Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), then directed a nonprofit organization called Rebuild America, which promoted U.S. manufacturing and domestic job creation; in 1990 Mr. Branfman embarked on a prolonged spiritual exploration that led him to study various religious traditions around the world and to become an advocate for “death with dignity")
Associated language	eng