Jogging his memory
Harry S. Truman, at a desk with a nameplate 'H.S.T.' and a sheet headed 'My Memoirs', is struck on the head by a giant mallet swung by a leaping figure labelled 'Byrnes' on his coat. The picture shows the former secretary of state's challenge to the memoir as a blow; the technique is a weak-fit name-calling through caricature, since no epithet is printed.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- November 6, 1955
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Media and information
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743215 (NAID 5743215).
Text on the object
MY MEMOIRS H.S.T. BYRNES JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
