Content note: Photographs, as issued, show dead bodies, one badly burned, and a destroyed bridge. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Another Vietcong Crime in Dinh-Tuong
An amber-headed sheet with a 1965 calendar for September to November (Lunar year Ất-Tỵ) presents photographs and dated captions of Viet Cong actions in Dinh Tuong and neighbouring districts: a bridge blown up on the night of 24 July 1965, a burned body, two killed men, villagers repairing a road and a hamlet meeting at which an official denounces the killings. The headline calls these 'crimes' of the Viet Cong. The tell is the pairing of graphic casualty photographs with a practical calendar, so the accusation sits in the household for the rest of the year; the sheet shows only Viet Cong acts.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-5-658.
Text on the object
LẠI THÊM TỘI ÁC CỦA VIỆT CỘNG TẠI ĐỊNH-TƯỜNG Đêm 24-7-65, Việt Cộng giựt mìn phá hoại cầu Xã An-Thái-Đông (Quận Giáo-Đức) làm gián đoạn sự lưu thông trên quốc lộ số 4. Tại Xã An-Thái-Đông đêm 24 rạng 25-7-65, sau khi sát hại đàn bà, trẻ nít, Việt Cộng còn nhẫn tâm liệng xác vào lửa gây thêm cảnh tang thương. Hồi 20 giờ ngày 2-8-65, Việt Cộng sát hại hai cha con ông Lê-văn-Khanh, tại Ấp Bình Tạo C, Xã Bình-Đức, Quận Châu-Thành. Đồng bào trong xã đang sửa chữa lại khúc đường đã bị Việt Cộng tàn phá. Xe cộ bị ứ đọng, hành khách phải dùng xuồng để qua lại. Đồng bào xã Bình-Đức họp Mết tinh nghe ông Trưởng Chi Tâm Lý Chiến quận Châu-Thành tố cáo tội ác của Việt Cộng. LỊCH 1965 ẤT-TỴ THÁNG CHÍN / THÁNG MƯỜI / THÁNG M. MỘT [calendar grid with solar and lunar dates, Chúa Nhật to Thứ Bảy]
ANOTHER CRIME OF THE VIET CONG IN DINH-TUONG On the night of 24-7-65, the Viet Cong detonated a mine and destroyed the bridge at An-Thai-Dong village (Giao-Duc district), interrupting traffic on national road no. 4. At An-Thai-Dong village on the night of 24 into 25-7-65, after killing women and small children, the Viet Cong callously threw the bodies into the fire, making the scene still more mournful. At 8 p.m. on 2-8-65, the Viet Cong killed two men, father and son, of Mr. Le-van-Khanh at Binh Tao C hamlet, Binh-Duc village, Chau-Thanh district. Villagers of the village are repairing the section of road that the Viet Cong wrecked. Vehicles are backed up and passengers must use boats to cross. Villagers of Binh-Duc village hold a meeting to hear the head of the Psychological Warfare Section of Chau-Thanh district denounce the crimes of the Viet Cong. CALENDAR 1965 YEAR OF AT-TY SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER / NOVEMBER [calendar grid]
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. Calendar day names and lunar day numbers are not transcribed.
