National Army Helps the People poster (Lao, distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photo poster showing soldiers on civic work: building houses and a bridge, a school class, teaching vegetable growing, and army medics treating patients, under a headline matching NARA's title 'National Army Helps the People'. The three-headed elephant and trident emblems flank the title. The tell is transfer: national symbols and images of aid are paired with the army.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 16, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. information program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East; Royal Lao Army emblems on sheet
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters 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, March 16, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949273, 306-PPB-348).
Text on the object
[Lao headline, matching NARA title 'National Army Helps the People': not reliably legible] [Lao body paragraph and photo captions: illegible]
Headline (per NARA's title): National Army Helps the People. Body text and captions not translated.
Lao script not legible enough to transcribe verbatim.
