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title: From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and the Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/swp-bring-the-troops-home-stop-the-bombing-jenness-pulley-1972/
description: Red-bordered electoral poster with a photograph of a large smoke column over a landscape and the text "From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and Republicans…
section: Collection
---

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[![From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and the Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/swp-bring-the-troops-home-stop-the-bombing-jenness-pulley-1972.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/swp-bring-the-troops-home-stop-the-bombing-jenness-pulley-1972.jpg)

# From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and the Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs

Red-bordered electoral poster with a photograph of a large smoke column over a landscape and the text "From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs on the people of Vietnam. They're still doing it in 1972." Below: "Bring the troops home now / Stop the bombing. Vote Socialist Workers: Jenness for President, Pulley for Vice-President." The tell is the single statistic attributed to both major parties with no source or breakdown, used to support a vote appeal.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
From 1965 to 1971
the Democrats
and Republicans
dropped more than
6 million
tons of bombs
on the people of
Vietnam.
They're still
doing it
in 1972.
Bring the troops home now/ Stop the bombing
Vote Socialist Workers
Jenness for President
Pulley for Vice-President
[Footer: Socialist Workers Campaign Committee, [illegible] Broadway, New York, N.Y. [illegible]]
```

Read from a 640 px LoC scan. The footer is very small; only the sponsor type and the city are legible and the rest is marked illegible. The top line is read as 'the Democrats and Republicans' (LoC's catalogue title has 'the Democrats and the Republicans').

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