ABC News, Howard K. Smith - Harry Reasoner Report
                          Reported by Jim Kincaid
                                 May 4, 1971

HARRY REASONER:  Ted Studebaker of West Milton, Ohio, was a young man who 
told his draft board he could not conscientiously accept military service, 
but that he was perfectly willing to go to Vietnam. ABC's Jim Kincaid 
reports on what happened to him.

(Background music sung by Ted Studebaker, recorded some weeks earlier in
Vietnam and sent to his parents.)

JIM KINCAID:  When Ted Studebaker went to war, he took no weapons. He took
instead a guitar, a small tape recorder, but most important a dedication
to the idea that more can be accomplished with tools than with guns. Ted
Studebaker's Army was the Vietnam Christian service. His assignment: to help
the mountain people of the village of Di Linh. He worked here for two years
and planned to stay a third. Here he fell in love with Pakdy, a gentle
Chinese girl from Hong Kong, like him, a volunteer. Here they married.

   About a week later, on April 26, a Vietcong unit attacked Di Linh. The
attack opened with a mortar barrage, and later the invakers entered the 
house and shot Ted Studebaker to death. The Vietcong obviously considered
him an enemy; after all, he was an American. But they couldn't really have
known Ted Studebaker.

   A few days later, Ted Studebaker's widow journeyed to his home near West
Milton, Ohio, there to join his family and to plan a memorial at the
family's church. A memorial that would be, in Pastor Phillip Bradley's
words, a celebration of the life of Ted Studebaker.

PASTOR BRADLEY:  Ted saw both the agony and the ecstasy of life, both the
grandeur and the misery of man. He said yes to his world even though he
wrote, "I have never heard of a President pinning a medal of honor on a 
pacifist. These are the sacred glories reserved for those who can kill, 
maim, capture or destroy the most, and the more human lives involved, the
more glorious the award seems to be. What a contradiction of values. How can
a great society be so inconsistend and incoherent?"

(Background music--"Blowin' In The Wind"--sung by Ted Studebaker.)

JIM KINCAID:  Ted Studebaker loved this song and send a recording to his 
family. His wishes concerning his final resting place were never clearly 
stated, but his mother feels she knows the proper way.

MRS. STUDEBAKER:  He especially liked this view out here under the two 
willow trees and we feel that this spot on the farm is so much a part of
what Ted loved here and we think this would be a very appropriate place 
to scatter his ashes. The ashes being scattered, some would remain on the 
farm and the rest will be, as his wife remarked, blowing in the wind.

JIM KINCAID:  Ted Studebaker was a man who believed peace was possible. He
had his roots in the land and it occurred to him that a land that needed
him was a tortured land far from his farm in Ohio. He went there willingly;
now he has come home.

(Fadeout of "Blowin' In The Wind")