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U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331, 1965 US poster: A five-panel folded English sheet headed 'The United States

U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331 (English, Manila)

A five-panel folded English sheet headed 'The United States Position on Viet-Nam', marked 'Please post on bulletin board'. Photographs show a U.S. soldier in a beret, villagers amid ruins and a grave, an officer examining captured weapons, missiles, and Marines landing on a beach, with a quotation from President Johnson of 25 March 1965. The tell is card-stacking: chosen images present the U.S. role as a response to a request for help and to concealed aggression.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stackingFear appealTestimonial
Date
April 23, 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
Themes
War and the military, Security and surveillance
Event
Vietnam 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, April 23, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949256, 306-PPB-331).

Text on the object

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

The United States Position on VIET-NAM

PLEASE POST ON BULLETIN BOARD

Communist North Viet-Nam has flagrantly violated the 1954 and 1962 Geneva agreements by launching a large-scale, concealed war against South Viet-Nam.

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE of aggression: captured weapons bearing communist trademark, terrorism and sabotage against civilian population.

At the official request of South Viet-Nam, the United States and other freedom-loving nations of the world have supported the Vietnamese in a concerted struggle to defend life, property and human liberty.

On March 25, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "It is and it will remain the policy of the United States to furnish assistance to support South Viet-Nam for as long as is required to bring Communist aggression and terrorism under control."

BATTLE-READY U.S. Marines arrive in South Viet-Nam in response to the call for help.

THANKS TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE FOR THEIR DETERMINATION IN PROTECTING FREEDOM IN V.N. [banner in photograph; remaining words illegible]

SUPPLEMENT TO FREE WORLD VOL. XIV NO. 4 APRIL 1965

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Banner text inside the last photograph is partly illegible.

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