The News in Pictures poster, No. 1 (Arabic, Beirut)
A fold-out photo sheet of nine captioned news photographs about African and US relations in spring 1964: President Johnson with the King of Burundi, Africa Day at the New York World's Fair, Johnson with foreign students, Sierra Leone and Guinea officials, a Malawi labor minister, Algerian legislators with Eisenhower. The sheet presents official meetings and pavilion openings as news. The tell is card-stacking: only cordial diplomatic and fair events appear, and the captions quote Johnson on every nation's freedom to seek its own destiny.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 22, 1964
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series (RSC Beirut)
- 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
- Themes
- Media and information, Economy and finance
- 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, July 22, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949184, 306-PPB-260).
Text on the object
الأنباء في صور [Eleven captioned photographs, each with a block of small Arabic caption text. Headlines of the captions are not separately set; caption text is not transcribed in full.] 65-P-3(8)
The News in Pictures [Eleven captioned photographs with Arabic captions. From the legible captions: King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi received by President and Mrs. Johnson in the White House Rose Garden on 19 May; Africa Day at the New York World's Fair, with the African pavilion opened on 21 May; President Johnson meeting more than 800 foreign students at the White House, quoting him that every nation must be free to seek its destiny in its own way; Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams meeting journalism students in Dakar; the Chad ambassador presenting credentials; the Sierra Leone pavilion opening on 8 May; Guinea's Minister of Economic Cooperation welcomed by Under Secretary Harriman; Malawi's Minister of Labor at a luncheon given by Assistant Secretary of Labor Weaver; Algerian legislators meeting former President Eisenhower; Gabon officials at an industrial development study with Raeburn F. Hay of the Area Redevelopment Administration.] 65-P-3(8)
Arabic caption body text is not transcribed here; the headline and printed code are. The translation field summarises the captions, which match the English edition (see NAID 6949186).
