New Life Hamlet Projects Under the Self-Help Program
A photo sheet (code SP-1153) records dated events in Gia Dinh province in May 1966: the handing out of 1,057 water jars on 12 May, a well opened on 10 May and a laterite road opened on 6 May. Photographs show uniformed men shaking hands with villagers beside sandbags and jars, villagers carrying aid parcels, villagers at a well and a village street with cyclists. The sheet attaches a date and a place to every event, and the photographs show the aid and the finished works.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1966
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-1153.
Text on the object
PHÁT TRIỂN VÀ XÂY DỰNG CÁC ẤP TÂN SINH TẠI GIA ĐỊNH TRONG CHƯƠNG TRÌNH TỰ TÚC Buổi lễ cấp phát 1057 cái lu cho đồng bào tại các ấp tân sinh xã An Phú Đông và xã Thạnh Mỹ Tây quận Gò Vấp ngày 12 tháng 5 năm 1966 Các đồng bào tỵ nạn cộng sản thường xuyên được lãnh các tặng phẩm Khánh thành giếng nước tại ấp Tân Sinh Tây Nhì thuộc xã Phú Nhuận ngày 10 tháng 5 năm 1966 Khánh thành con đường đá đỏ ấp Thới Tứ, xã Thới Tam Thôn, quận Hóc Môn ngày 6 tháng 5 năm 1966 SP-1153
DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW LIFE HAMLETS IN GIA DINH WITHIN THE SELF-HELP PROGRAMME Ceremony distributing 1,057 water jars to compatriots in the New Life hamlets of An Phu Dong village and Thanh My Tay village, Go Vap district, 12 May 1966 Compatriots who are refugees from communism regularly receive gifts Inauguration of the water well at Tan Sinh Tay Nhi hamlet, Phu Nhuan village, 10 May 1966 Inauguration of the red-stone road at Thoi Tu hamlet, Thoi Tam Thon village, Hoc Mon district, 6 May 1966 SP-1153
Vietnamese diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at image resolution. The place names 'Thạnh Mỹ Tây' and 'Thới Tam Thôn' are read from a slightly blurred line; the first word of 'Thạnh' may be misread. A partial sign at the upper left of the top photograph is cut off and not transcribed.
