Press and Freedom poster, Free World supplement (English, Manila)
A Free World supplement sheet headed 'The Press and Freedom', over a collage of newspaper front pages. It quotes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Goldberg to newspaper editors: a free government and a free press depend on each other, and press freedom and responsibility are 'indivisible concepts'. Photographs show a press conference, election-night returns, a woman reading books and two men reading a newspaper at a press. The tell is testimonial: a named judge's words carry the argument, while the collage of U.S. mastheads stands for the press he describes.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 9, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- 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
- Theme
- Media and information
- 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, March 9, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949246, 306-PPB-321).
Text on the object
NEW YORK Herald Tribune City Edition The Washington Post CHICAGO DAILY NEWS THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR The New York Times [newspaper mastheads, headlines and body text on the red background are partly overprinted and not legible; legible fragments:] JOHNSON FACING CONFLICT OF IDEAS ON DOLLAR DRAIN / Churchill Buried in Day of Sorrow and Regal Pageantry / SOVIET LEADERS PLAN HANOI VISIT; HAIL JOHNSON BID THE PRESS AND FREEDOM U.S. Supreme Court Justice A. Goldberg before the American Society of Newspaper Editors: We cannot have a free government without a free press and we cannot have a free press without a free government. Our Constitution has made the press free; you have it in your charge to make it responsible. It is for you to demonstrate that press freedom and responsibility are viable and indivisible concepts. PRESS CONFERENCE—a clear recognition of peoples' right to inquire into governmental work FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION—through books and periodicals, the press, radio and television networks [on drawing:] PRESS INK [in photo:] NEWS ELECTION RETURNS SUPPLEMENT TO FREE WORLD VOL. XIV NO. 2 FEBRUARY
The newspaper background is overprinted by the title and only part of the headlines can be read; the quotation and captions are complete.
