--- title: Liberated by the Viet Cong url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nscvv-liberated-by-the-viet-cong-1968/ description: A landscape poster headed "Liberated by the Viet Cong" arranges nine black-and-white photographs of dead and wounded civilians, each with a short caption… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Nine photographs show dead and wounded civilians, including children, with captions attributing the killings to Viet Cong forces. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Liberated by the Viet Cong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nscvv-liberated-by-the-viet-cong-1968.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nscvv-liberated-by-the-viet-cong-1968.jpg) # Liberated by the Viet Cong A landscape poster headed "Liberated by the Viet Cong" arranges nine black-and-white photographs of dead and wounded civilians, each with a short caption that attributes the harm to Viet Cong forces and gives a year between 1964 and 1968. A line at the foot says the pictures are "only a sample" of what South Vietnamese can expect if the United States fails to keep its commitment. The photographs have no credits, and the captions give no sources. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` - LIBERATED BY THE VIET CONG - A mortar and hand grenade attack by Viet Cong against defenseless women and children took a toll of 52 killed and 80 wounded. 1964. Three teen-age girls, members of a Revolutionary Development Team in Long Khanh Province, Vietnam, lie dead with their hands tied after being murdered by the Viet Cong in the hamlet of [illegible] April 16, 1967. Two of over 70 bodies exhumed from mass graves in the yard of Gia Hoi primary school show hands still tied as they were assassinated three weeks prior during the TET offensive to "liberate" the imperial city of Hue. Communists exploded a mine under a truckload of farm workers then shot at survivors with rifles killing 12 and wounding 28. Resident of Bien Phu Hoang [illegible] garroted by the Viet Cong at Chrysanthemum Bridge, 1966. Viet Cong forces [illegible] the Montagnard Village of Dak Son a charnel house. They refused to furnish the VC rice or [illegible]. The toll was 252 charred and [illegible] bodies - 70% women and children. Killed by Viet Cong terrorists, 1966. A whole family killed in their garden by VC fire and shelling in TET offensive at suburb of Saigon. This is only a sample of what many South Vietnamese can expect should the United States fail to fulfill our commitment to those valiant people. DISTRIBUTED BY: NATIONAL STUDENT COMMITTEE FOR VICTORY IN VIETNAM, 21[illegible] North Clay Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63122 ``` Caption type is very small and the master is only 1024 px wide, so several words and some numerals are uncertain (the 52/80 figures, place names in the third, fifth and sixth captions, the ZIP code); [illegible] marks words that could not be read. The captions are listed in reading order top to bottom, left to right. [← Army Officer Candidate School prepares you for leadership like no other school can (US Army recruiting poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/army-ocs-leadership-recruiting-poster-1968/) [Republic of Vietnam: Special Issue on the National Day (Consulate General in Hong Kong, 1968), typescript page 3 on military, economic and social 'success' →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/republic-of-vietnam-national-day-1968-achievements-typescript-1968/) ## Using the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer) - [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (Qing China · 1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity.