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title: Kennedy film poster, textless sheet A (distributed in Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-textless-a-beirut-1964/
description: A colour portrait of President John F. Kennedy at a desk before a flag and curtain, with two black-and-white photographs below. (4 of 4)
section: Collection
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[![Kennedy film poster, textless sheet A, 1964 US poster: A colour portrait of President John F. Kennedy at a desk before a flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-textless-a-beirut-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-textless-a-beirut-1964.jpg)

# Kennedy film poster, textless sheet A (distributed in Beirut)

A colour portrait of President John F. Kennedy at a desk before a flag and curtain, with two black-and-white photographs below: Kennedy speaking at a lectern before a hall hung with many national flags, and Kennedy holding a small child beside Jacqueline Kennedy. This printing carries no title or credit text; the yellow panel at upper left is blank. The tell is transfer: the prestige of a slain president and of international ceremony is attached to the film being promoted, though here without any words naming it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Checked for printed text

No printed or legible text on this object.

Layout leaves the yellow panel at upper left empty and no title or credit line is printed; the text appears to have been omitted from this printing.

[← Kennedy film poster, English version (distributed in Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-english-beirut-1964/) [Long An Public Health Service poster, No. 394 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/long-an-public-health-service-poster-394-vietnamese-1964/)

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