SOS: Save Our Sons
Who you hear in this episode, in order:
Jean McLean (b. 1934) * Tony Dalton (b. 1948) * Ceci Cairns (b. 1944) * Joan Coxsedge (b. 1931) * Ceci Cairns (b. 1944) * Joan Coxsedge (b. 1931) * Fiona Lindsay (b. 1950) * Frances Newell (b. 1948) * Diana Crunden (b. 1948) * Martha Kinsman (b. 1947) * Andra Jackson (b. 1948) * Jean McLean (b. 1934)
Image is from Ross Campbell (dir.), As Long As I can Walk, 1971. The documentary, about the third moratorium against the Vietnam War which was held in September 1971, can be viewed here. Used with permission. The woman in the photo is Jean McLean.
Image from “A tip worth a heavy plunge,” The Tribune, 15 November 1967, p3. Used with permission of SEARCH Foundation. The two women are Jean McLean and Ceci Cairns, at the Melbourne Cup.
Image from Rebecca McLean (dir.). Save Our Sons. S.O.S Pictures, 1996. It can be viewed here and is highly recommended. Used with permission. Jean McLean is the woman wearing sunglasses; this is during her time in North Vietnam.
Bibliography:
Primary sources
Dalton collection. Political Ephemera relating to Save Our Sons, 1965-1968. Held at the State Library of Victoria.
Mary Sticklan to Miss Abraham, letter, 14 November 1965.
Miller, Irene (compiler). Save Our Sons papers: manuscripts, typescript, printed, photographs, postcards 1966-1973. Held at the State Library of Victoria.
Various authors, telegrams of support, Box 1/2.
Letters to Mothers Clubs, Box 1/4.
Irene Miller, notes for a speech (?), Box 1/5.
Irene Miller, “Why I was willing to go as far as prison,” Box 1/5.
University of Melbourne Archives. Papers of Alvie Booth. University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library Special Collections: 2016-04-01T11:17:53Z
SOS newsletter, April 1969.
SOS newsletter, April 1970
A Victorian correspondent. “The stirring saga of the "Fairlea Five’.” Tribune, 21 April 1971: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237868449.
Secondary sources
Armstrong, Pauline. A History of the Save Our Sons Movement of Victoria: 1965-1973. Master’s thesis, Monash University, 1991.
Collins, Carolyn. Save Our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2021.
Francis, Rosemary. “Women in protest movements: the Women's Peace Army and the Save Our Sons Movement.” Hons thesis, The University of Melbourne, 1984.
Gibson, Ralph. One Woman’s Life: a memoir of Dorothy Gibson. Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1980.
McLean, Rebecca (dir.). Save Our Sons. S.O.S Pictures, 1996.