Korea Exhibit poster No. 2b: soldier's testimony (Thai, distributed in Bangkok)

A Thai-language exhibit sheet. At top, a uniformed sergeant stands beside a large photograph of bodies on a slope and a map marked 38 and Kaesong; a caption says he points to the pit in which he was buried alive for 52 hours after being captured and shot. Below, overlapping pages of typed Thai text are arranged as a collage of statements. The tell is testimonial: a named survivor and typed statements stand in for proof.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

TestimonialOutrage bait

Date

August 30, 1954

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

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Warn or inform

Theme

War and the military

Event

Korean War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed 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, 30 August 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949015, 306-PPB-142b).

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[background collage of typed Thai statement pages, headed with case numbers; not transcribed]

Master Sergeant Carey Weinel [name as transliterated from the Thai] points to the picture of a pit in which he was buried alive for 52 hours after being captured and shot.

[background collage of typed Thai statement pages; not transcribed]