Johanna Gostas was the Wyoming coordinator of the National League of Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Families while her husband, U.S. Army Major Theodore W. Gostas, was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese from 1968 to 1973. She organized letter writing, petition signing and phone calling campaigns and served as a National League representative to a 1971 Geneva conference on prisoner treatment. The collection contains correspondence, news releases, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, materials from the Geneva conference, and an oral history interview with Ted Gostas regarding his experiences as a POW.
Additional content for this collection can be found in the "Inventory for collection."