--- title: '''Lip Mending'' Program at Quang Tri Hospital' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lip-mending-quang-tri-hospital-1965-1969/ description: 'A green-headed sheet shows American medical staff at Quang Tri Hospital: a US doctor speaking at the opening of a surgical ward.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. 'Lip Mending' Program at Quang Tri Hospital [!['Lip Mending' Program at Quang Tri Hospital, 1965 US poster: A green-headed sheet shows American medical staff at Quang Tri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lip-mending-quang-tri-hospital-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lip-mending-quang-tri-hospital-1965-1969.jpg) # 'Lip Mending' Program at Quang Tri Hospital A green-headed sheet shows American medical staff at Quang Tri Hospital: a US doctor speaking at the opening of a surgical ward, a surgical team operating, a US Navy officer mixing medicines, and before-and-after portraits of two named boys aged 8 and 7 whose cleft lips have been repaired. Captions name the American doctors and the children. The tell is the paired before-and-after photographs and named individuals offered as the record of the programme, with no figures on cases treated or on the wider health situation. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CHƯƠNG TRÌNH "VÁ MÔI" TẠI BỆNH VIỆN QUẢNG TRỊ Lễ Khánh Thành Khu Giải Phẫu tại Bệnh Viện Quảng Trị. (Bác sĩ Wesley Boodish Trưởng Phái Đoàn Y-Tế Hoa-Kỳ ngỏ lời trong buổi Lễ.) Em Nguyễn Trung, 8 tuổi thuộc Quận Cam Lộ. Thị Xã Đông Hà. Bác-sĩ Kaufman trong đoàn Y-Tế Mỹ và bác sĩ Welliam Johnson đã tình nguyện đến phục vụ cho chương trình phát triển Y-Tế và giải phẫu tại Việt Nam. Vị sĩ quan Hải Quân Hoa-Kỳ, ông Robert Butler đang pha chế thuốc men để phân phát cho bệnh nhân tại Bệnh Viện Quảng Trị. Em Nguyễn Tấn, 7 tuổi trú tại Thôn Đệ Tam, Xã Quảng-Trị. [banner in photograph, partly cropped:] HÂN-HOAN CHÀO MỪNG ... TRUNG-TƯỚNG VÀ PHÁI-ĐOÀN SP-1028 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` "LIP MENDING" PROGRAM AT QUANG TRI HOSPITAL Inauguration of the Surgical Ward at Quang Tri Hospital. (Dr. Wesley Boodish, Chief of the American Medical Mission, speaking at the ceremony.) Child Nguyen Trung, 8 years old, of Cam Lo District, Dong Ha Town. Dr. Kaufman of the American Medical team and Dr. Welliam Johnson volunteered to serve the medical development and surgery programme in Vietnam. An American Navy officer, Mr. Robert Butler, is preparing medicines to distribute to patients at Quang Tri Hospital. Child Nguyen Tan, 7 years old, resident of De Tam Hamlet, Quang-Tri Village. [banner in photograph, partly cropped:] WARMLY WELCOME ... LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND DELEGATION SP-1028 ``` [← The Light of the Just Cause (Phuoc Long Homecoming Ceremony)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/light-of-the-just-cause-phuoc-long-ceremony-1965-1969/) [Long-Trường Thủ-Đức: Mồ chôn Việt Cộng (Long Truong Thu Duc, Graveyard of the VC) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/long-truong-thu-duc-graveyard-of-the-vc-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial) - [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial) - [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)