Gemini wall poster, Amharic News in Pictures (Amharic poster distributed in Addis Ababa)
A photo-news poster headed 'News in Pictures' in Amharic on the first U.S. two-man Gemini 3 flight of 23 March 1965. Photographs and a schematic show the launch, the two astronauts, a view of Earth, the orbit changes, the sea recovery and President Johnson greeting the crew. The tell is transfer: the prestige of spaceflight achievement and of the President's handshake is attached to the United States. This is the Amharic version of the English sheet NAID 6949221.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 1, 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
- Warn or inform
- 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, c. 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949222, 306-PPB-298).
Text on the object
ዜናዎች በሥዕል ። የአሜሪካ የጠፈር ተጓዦች ለመጀመሪያ ጊዜ የመንኰራኩራቸን አቅጣጫ መለወጥ ችለዋል ። [Body text and photo captions in Ethiopic script (Amharic), a full translation of the English sheet, too small to transcribe reliably from the scan] [Diagram labels in Amharic, including 1/50 degree] [Ethiopic imprint line at lower right, small]
NEWS IN PICTURES. U.S. astronauts have been able for the first time to change the direction of their spacecraft. [Body text and captions: Amharic rendering of the English sheet NAID 6949221 (Gemini 3, 23 March 1965: launch from Cape Kennedy, Grissom and Young, change of orbit, rescue sling, capsule hoisted aboard the carrier, President Johnson greeting the astronauts). Not transcribed word for word.]
Only the headline is transcribed; the body text is Ethiopic script too small to read reliably from the scan, so it is marked rather than guessed. The headline reading is the cataloguer's best reading of the scan.
