News in Pictures poster, No. 4 (Arabic, Beirut)
An Arabic fold-out photo sheet with a fisheye view of the UN General Assembly hall and four captioned stories: Presidents Johnson and Kaunda exchanging portraits, a Guinean woman modelling Kennedy and Lincoln cloth, the opening of the African Development Bank in Lagos and Martin Luther King, Jr., receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. The tell is card-stacking: successes and honours are selected, and the Kennedy, Lincoln and King images carry their prestige to the sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 28, 1965
- 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
- Economy and finance, Race and ethnicity
- 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, January 28, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949202, 306-PPB-278).
Text on the object
الأنباء في صور تبادل الصور بين الرئيسين جونسون وكاوندا [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] رئيس وزراء نيجيريا يفتتح بنك الإنماء [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] أصوات إفريقية جديدة ترتفع في افتتاح دورة الأمم المتحدة التاسعة عشرة [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] مكافأة مارتن لوثر كنج بجائزة نوبل للسلام [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] 65-P-77 (16)
NEWS IN PICTURES Exchange of portraits between Presidents Johnson and Kaunda [Body: Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson exchange portraits at the White House during the state visit; below, a young woman of Guinea wears a dress printed with portraits of Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln, sold in Conakry.] The Prime Minister of Nigeria opens the Development Bank [Body: Prime Minister Balewa opens the first meeting in Lagos of the board of governors of the African Development Bank; Finance Minister Okotie-Eboh was elected chairman.] New African voices rise at the opening of the nineteenth session of the United Nations [Body: Malawi and Zambia admitted; Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana chosen President of the General Assembly; photo made with a 180-degree lens; Simon Kapwepwe of Zambia addressing the Assembly.] Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize [Body: Dr. King, 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner, congratulated in Oslo by Crown Prince Harald and King Olav V, with his wife Coretta.]
Arabic edition. The headlines are transcribed from the image; the small-print body captions are not transcribed word for word and are summarised in the translation field from the sheet's content, which matches the English edition of the same issue.
