Aggression from the North poster, 65-294 (uncaptioned map poster distributed in Addis Ababa)
The uncaptioned base sheet of the Aggression from the North map poster, printed with the map and photographs but without the place names, headline, text or captions that the language editions add. Red arrows run from the North through Laos into South Vietnam, four portrait photographs and photographs of seized ammunition, a document, a burned hospital, a bus and a derailed train are linked to map points. The tell is card-stacking: selected photographs stand as proof of invasion, with fear-appeal in the attack scenes.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 13, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 13, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949165, 306-PPB-241).
Text on the object
No printed words on the map or photographs; only the printed code at lower right: 65-294 (24)
Portrait frames and photograph frames have blank caption areas.
