Lee Keedick Presents Lieutenant Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps, in "My Escape from a German Prison Camp"

A lettering-only lecture bill announces a talk by a Royal Flying Corps officer on his escape from a German prison camp, billing it as 'startling.' The tell of testimonial is the named, uniformed eyewitness offered as the draw. The sheet is a commercial lecture advertisement, not an appeal issued by a government agency.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: Lee Keedick (lecture bureau); Lieutenant Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Corporation
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War I
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Lee Keedick. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-14.

Text on the object

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

LEE KEEDICK
Presents
LIEUTENANT
PAT O'BRIEN
ROYAL FLYING CORPS
IN A STARTLING LECTURE
"MY ESCAPE FROM A GERMAN PRISON CAMP"

[small line at bottom edge, partly legible:] 3 SHT 3535   PAT O'BRIEN   No 1

The small line at the bottom edge is a faint stock or sheet-size line (apparently '3 SHT', i.e. three-sheet); no printer's name is legible.