Background
Douglas Pike was born on July 27, 1924 in Cass Lake, Minnesota, United States, in the family of Clarence Eugene and Esther (Jensen) Pike.
Douglas Pike was born on July 27, 1924 in Cass Lake, Minnesota, United States, in the family of Clarence Eugene and Esther (Jensen) Pike.
Pike received a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota, a bachelor's in international communications from the University of California, Berkeley, an Master of Arts from American University in Washington D.C. in 1958, and did a year of graduate work at the MIT Center for International Studies.
Douglas Eugene Pike was a foremost scholar on the Vietnam War and the Viet Cong based at Texas Tech University from 1997, was director of the Indochina Archive at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 and prior to that served as Foreign Service Officer in Asia, with assignments in Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Taipei. Pike served for 15 years as the State Department's leading analyst. He was considered the leading expert on the National Liberation Front and People's Army of Vietnam.
He has authored numerous books and articles on the war and the VC.
Pike founded The Indochina Chronology in 1982 to cover both historical and contemporary events in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
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On September 15, 1956 he married a freelance editor Myrna Louise Johnson, and they had three children: Andrew Jefferson, Victoria Louise, and Ethan Edward.