Al Hayat fi Amrika No. 32 promotion poster (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)
A landscape promotion sheet for issue 32 of 'Life in America'. A grey portrait of President Kennedy sits in a green frame beside a painted scene of astronauts with jet packs, a landing craft and domed bases on a rust-coloured surface, marked 'U.S.A.'. The text lists a poetry supplement on Kennedy, the conquest of the Moon, Puerto Rico and a stage star. The tell is transfer: the dead president's image and a national space programme lend prestige to the magazine.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 25, 1964
- 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
- Science and technology, Media and information
- Event
- Cold 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, November 25, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949214, 306-PPB-290).
Text on the object
الحياة في ٣٢ أمريكا تقدم • ملحق شعري خاص عن الرئيس كنيدي • غزو القمر • بورتوريكو • نجمة المسرح كارول تشانينج تصدر في أوائل كانون الأول (ديسمبر) القادم وتطلب من جميع الباعة والمكتبات U.S.A. K-17
Life in America, 32. Presents: A special poetry supplement on President Kennedy; The conquest of the Moon; Puerto Rico; The stage star Carol Channing. Issued in early Kanun al-Awwal (December) next and requested from all vendors and libraries. (Painted lettering: U.S.A.; K-17.)
Small lettering inside the painting (helmet and craft numbers, warning stencils) is not transcribed beyond U.S.A. and K-17.
