"That's one Korean problem I can solve!"
A cigar-smoking man in a battered hat and waistcoat, his coat labelled 'J.Q. Public' over his arm, rolls down his sleeve on the steps of a door marked 'Blood Donor Center' with a red cross, beside a bulletin reading 'Critical shortage of whole blood for wounded U.N. fighting men!' He says: 'That's one Korean problem I can solve!' The technique tell is plain-folks: an everyman figure (J.Q. Public) models the desired action of giving blood.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- June 2, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- Korean War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), 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, 5743177 (NAID 5743177).
Text on the object
BLOOD DONOR CENTER BULLETIN CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF WHOLE BLOOD FOR WOUNDED U.N. FIGHTING MEN! THAT'S ONE KOREAN PROBLEM I CAN SOLVE! J.Q. PUBLIC JIM BERRYMAN
