News in Pictures poster, No. 8 (Arabic, Beirut)
An Arabic fold-out photo sheet headed 'News in Pictures', with a large United Nations photograph of African delegates and the Upper Volta president, plus pictures of a White House reception, an African music and dance festival and a Liberian trainee at a U.S. air traffic tower. It presents US-African contact as the news of the week. The tell is card-stacking: only friendly visits and exchanges are chosen, and the White House and UN settings transfer their standing to the stories.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 9, 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
- Race and ethnicity, Science and technology
- 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 9, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949198, 306-PPB-274).
Text on the object
الأنباء في صور رئيس فولتا العليا يزور الولايات المتحدة [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] الألحان الأفريقية تتألق في المهرجان الموسيقي أثناء أداء رقصة «الباتاكوتو» [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] [remaining small-print photo captions not transcribed] 65-P-146 (16)
NEWS IN PICTURES The President of Upper Volta visits the United States [Body: the United Nations welcomed President Maurice Yameogo of Upper Volta; he was also a guest at the White House and received an honorary doctorate of laws in California; the photograph at left shows him on the stage with other officials.] African melodies shine at the music festival during the performance of the 'Batakoto' dance [Body: a performance at Howard University in Washington during International Week, with African drumming and dance, as part of a non-Arab-world music festival.] [Other photographs show: a Liberian trainee at the air traffic control tower of a New York airport; Mrs. Lyndon Johnson receiving women from thirty-three-nation Christian youth association delegates; and a student gathering.]
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. A few captions are summarised from partial reading.
