Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
7337834
label
National MIA Awareness Day [Proclamation]
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7337834
sourceUrl
contentType
document
title
National MIA Awareness Day [Proclamation]
citationUrl
collections
White House Press Releases (Ford Administration)
Press Releases
largeImageUrl
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
7337834
levelOfDescription
item
productionDates
day
25
logicalDate
1975-01-25
month
1
year
1975
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
document
mediaId
5d215fc9ef631ac9
ocrText
Digitized from Box 7 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
NATIONAL MIA AWARENESS DAY
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
January 27, 1975, marks the second anniversary of the
signing of the Paris Agreement ending United States combat
involvement in Vietnam. Although the Agreement contains
specific obligations on accounting for the missing and the
return of the remains of the dead, the communist authorities
have failed either to provide this information or to follow
through on the return of the remains of our dead. Over
2400 Americans are still unaccounted for --- some 900 of them
still listed as missing, the remainder declared dead with
their bodies never recovered. The families of these men
continue to live with the anguish of uncertainty about the
ultimate fate of these loved ones.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby designate Monday,
January 27, 1975, as National MIA Awareness Day, dedicated
to the many Americans who remain missing or unaccounted for
in Indochina, and to their families. I call upon all
Americans to join in voicing once again the clear, continuing
commitment of the American people and their Government to
seek the fullest possible accounting for Americans missing
in Southeast Asia and the return of the remains of those who
died.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth.
GERALD R. FORD
######