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title: How? The Viet Cong Blow Up Bus Loads of Civilians
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-the-viet-cong-bus-mines-1965-1969/
description: A yellow English-language sheet headed 'HOW?' sets photographs of a man holding a mine casing, a cratered road.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of a wrecked bus and of a wounded woman on a stretcher with relatives, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![How? The Viet Cong Blow Up Bus Loads of Civilians, 1965 US poster: A yellow English-language sheet headed 'HOW?' sets](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/how-the-viet-cong-bus-mines-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/how-the-viet-cong-bus-mines-1965-1969.jpg)

# How? The Viet Cong Blow Up Bus Loads of Civilians

A yellow English-language sheet headed 'HOW?' sets photographs of a man holding a mine casing, a cratered road, a wrecked bus and a wounded woman on a stretcher among relatives under the captions that the Viet Cong 'blow up bus loads of ordinary civilian passengers with pressure-type mines' and 'bring unbearable pain to the mother of two children.' The tell is the question headline answered by a photo sequence that runs from weapon to wreck to casualty, with no other context given.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
3

HOW ?

THE VIET CONG

... blow up bus loads of ordinary civilian passengers with pressure-type mines.

... bring unbearable pain to the mother of two children.
```

[← Hội nghị Diên Hồng, by Lưu Hữu Phước (The Dien Hong Conference)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hoi-nghi-dien-hong-luu-huu-phuoc-1965-1969/) [Humane Spirit of the 101st Airborne Division →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/humanitarian-spirit-101st-airborne-1965-1969/)

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