Geronimo
A caricatured man in a flight helmet marked TALBOTT, with a parachute pack, waves one arm and pulls a ripcord while jumping from a desk chair bearing a US Air Force star roundel onto a rocking chair labelled PAUL B. MULLIGAN & CO. The title echoes the paratroopers' jump cry. The tell is metaphor and caricature: an office-leaving is drawn as an emergency bail-out toward a business firm, so the argument is carried by the picture rather than stated.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- July 28, 1955
- 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- 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, 5743208 (NAID 5743208).
Text on the object
GERONIMO TALBOTT PAUL B. MULLIGAN & CO. JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
