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title: The News in Pictures poster, No. 2 (Arabic, Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-in-pictures-no-2-arabic-beirut-1964/
description: 'A fold-out photo sheet of six captioned news photographs about African and US relations: an Ethiopian painting of John F. Kennedy''s life (1 of 3)'
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# The News in Pictures poster, No. 2 (Arabic, Beirut)

A fold-out photo sheet of six captioned news photographs about African and US relations: an Ethiopian painting of John F. Kennedy's life for the Kennedy Library, a Nigerian minister laying a wreath at Kennedy's grave, a Nigeria Airways inaugural flight, Mali women leaders in Washington, the privately financed hospital ship HOPE sailing for Guinea, and African officials discussing the Congo. The tell is card-stacking: friendly exchanges and goodwill gestures are selected as the news, and the Kennedy images transfer his prestige to the US-African link.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
الأنباء في صور

السفينة «هوب» تبحر الى غينيا

[Six captioned photographs with Arabic captions; the caption body text is not transcribed in full. Printed code at lower right, partly legible: 65-P-48 (8)]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The News in Pictures

The ship "Hope" sails for Guinea

[Six captioned photographs with Arabic captions. From the legible captions: an Ethiopian painting of 60 scenes of President Kennedy's life and Haile Selassie's 1963 visit, to be given to the Kennedy Library; a Nigerian Minister of State (Army) laying a wreath at Kennedy's grave; the Nigeria Airways first Lagos to New York flight; Mali women leaders meeting Assistant Secretary of State Williams; the hospital ship HOPE leaving New York for Conakry, Guinea; African officials of the Organization of African Unity meeting in Nairobi on the Congo.]
```

Arabic caption body text is not transcribed in full; headline, one sub-headline and the code are. The translation field summarises the captions, which match the English edition (NAID 6949188).

[← Photos d'actualité poster, No. 2 (French, Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/photos-d-actualite-no-2-french-beirut-1964/) [Pictures in the News poster, No. 2 (English, Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-no-2-english-beirut-1964/)

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