Content note: Photographs show bandaged civilians including children, a ruined street, and a crowded shelter, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
The Government is Helping People, Victims of the Communist Attack
Sheet 2419 sets a row of photographs of bandaged civilians, nurses serving food, a loaded relief truck and a crowded shelter above a large photograph of a burnt-out street where a man crouches at a water pump. The text says tens of thousands of people 'victims of the recent Viet Cong attack' were helped by government relief agencies across the country, and the footer reads 'The terrorist Communist army is certain to be destroyed.' The tell: relief scenes and ruins are attributed to one side's attack, with the opponent labelled 'terrorist' in the closing line.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government (sheet carries no issuing office)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- 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, for the South Vietnamese government (sheet carries no issuing office). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-2419.
Text on the object
CHÁNH PHỦ GIÚP ĐỠ NHỮNG ĐỒNG BÀO NẠN NHÂN DO CUỘC TẤN CÔNG CỦA CỘNG-SẢN HÀNG VẠN ĐỒNG BÀO NẠN NHÂN CUỘC TẤN CÔNG CỦA VIỆT-CỘNG VỪA QUA ĐƯỢC CÁC CƠ-QUAN CỨU TRỢ CỦA CHÍNH PHỦ GIÚP ĐỠ TRÊN TOÀN QUỐC QUÂN CỘNG-SẢN KHỦNG BỐ NHẤT ĐỊNH BỊ TIÊU DIỆT 2419
THE GOVERNMENT HELPS THE COMPATRIOTS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF THE COMMUNIST ATTACK Tens of thousands of compatriots, victims of the recent Viet Cong attack, are being helped by the government's relief agencies throughout the country. THE TERRORIST COMMUNIST ARMY IS CERTAIN TO BE DESTROYED 2419
Translation by FRAME from the Vietnamese text on the poster, literal and machine-assisted, not checked by a fluent reader; the claims are the poster's own and FRAME has not checked them against other records. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution.
