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
- Date
- November 30, 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, Health
- 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, November 30, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949187, 306-PPB-263).
Text on the object
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)]
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).
