--- title: Pictures in the News poster, No. 5 (English, Beirut) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-no-5-english-beirut-1965/ description: 'An English fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs: U.S. grain airlifted to famine areas of Somalia, a Nigerian Ibo dictionary project.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Pictures in the News poster, No. 5 (English, Beirut) [![Pictures in the News poster, No. 5, 1965 US poster: An English fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pictures-in-the-news-no-5-english-beirut-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pictures-in-the-news-no-5-english-beirut-1965.jpg) # Pictures in the News poster, No. 5 (English, Beirut) An English fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs: U.S. grain airlifted to famine areas of Somalia, a Nigerian Ibo dictionary project, American students singing with Nigerian children, a White House party for orphans, African ambassadors at the UN and students rebuilding a Mississippi church burned after a civil rights rally. The tell is card-stacking: the stories are selected as goodwill and aid, and the White House setting transfers presidential standing to them. ## 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 (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` PICTURES IN THE NEWS Grain Rushed to Somalia An emergency shipment of United States grain to help relieve famine in drought-stricken areas of the Somali Republic is unloaded at Mogadiscio Airport. The food was flown in by the United States in response to an appeal from the Somali government. About 100 tons have been airlifted, and the remaining 6,900 tons will arrive by cargo ship. BELOW - A Somali citizen examines the grain, which is being distributed among 700,000 Somali citizens in the famine areas. NEW DICTIONARY BEING PRODUCED Professor Robert Armstrong, an American who is preparing an Ibo/English dictionary, guides Felicia Ekejuiba in the use of a palatograph machine at Ibadan University. As Miss Ekejiba, a student, pronounces Ibo words, the machine records the motion of her palate and tongue. UNDERSTANDING THROUGH MUSIC Nigerian children and American college students are amused by their attempts to sing each other's folksongs. The students are from Operation Crossroads Africa, a U.S. organization which encourages friendly exchange with African nations. PRESIDENT PLAYS HOST AT PARTY President Johnson and his family recently held a party at the White House in Washington for 150 orphans. The daughters of the President played games with the children. AFRICA HAS 35 NATIONS IN UN Three African spokesmen at the United Nations exchange views prior to a General Assembly session. They are Ambassadors Marof (Guinea), El-Kony (United Arab Republic), and Adebo (Nigeria). Africa now has more nations in the U.N. than other areas of the world. COLLEGE STUDENTS REBUILD A CHURCH Students and teachers of several American colleges spent their Christmas vacation as volunteer workers rebuilding a Baptist church in Mississippi. The church was burned after a rally for Negro rights had been held there. LEFT PHOTO: Students lay the foundation for the rebuilt church. RIGHT PHOTO: On Christmas Day, Reverend Roy McDonald conducts the first service in the partially-completed church. 65-P-94 ``` Printed text reproduced as set; the code at lower right is handwritten and read as 65-P-94. [← Photos d'Actualité poster, No. 5 (French, Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/photos-d-actualite-no-5-french-beirut-1965/) [Kennedy film poster, French-English version (distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-french-english-beirut-1965/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.