Content note: A close photograph of a veiled widow and her young son in white mourning dress at the father's funeral, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Sorrow and Grief to a Mother and Son
A full-page close photograph shows a woman in a white mourning veil holding a small boy who wears a white headband, with an orange caption block reading '... bring sorrow and grief to a mother and son at the father's funeral.' The opening ellipsis shows the sentence continues from a lost earlier sheet, so the sheet names no cause itself. The tell is the emotional close-up: grief imagery carries the message, and the actor responsible is left to the missing preceding text.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-31.
Text on the object
... bring sorrow and grief to a mother and son at the father's funeral.
Printed as the sole caption, on an orange block at lower left.
