--- title: A Viet Cong Terrorist Has Been Captured url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vc-terrorist-captured-1965-1969/ description: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1137) announces the capture of a named Viet Cong man whom it accuses of killing 83 civilians on the Tuy Hoa-Phong Nien section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. A Viet Cong Terrorist Has Been Captured **Content note:** The sheet shows a photograph of a captured man's face and a photograph of the bodies of dead and injured children, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![A Viet Cong Terrorist Has Been Captured, 1965 US poster: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1137) announces the capture](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vc-terrorist-captured-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vc-terrorist-captured-1965-1969.jpg) # A Viet Cong Terrorist Has Been Captured A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1137) announces the capture of a named Viet Cong man whom it accuses of killing 83 civilians on the Tuy Hoa-Phong Nien road by mine, including passengers in a U.S.-made bus and two Lambretta vehicles. Photographs show his face, the bodies of children and a wrecked Lambretta. The text labels the man 'terrorist' and 'bloodthirsty' and ends with a call for the whole population to condemn the Viet Cong. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` TÊN KHỦNG BỐ VIỆT CỘNG ĐÃ BỊ BẮT TÊN KHỦNG BỐ VIỆT CỘNG ĐÃ GIỤT MÌN TÀN SÁT 83 ĐỒNG BÀO VÔ TỘI TRÊN ĐƯỜNG TUY HÒA PHONG NIÊN ĐÃ BỊ TRUNG ĐOÀN 47 BẮT ĐƯỢC TRONG LÚC Y GẮN QUẢ MÌN THỨ 17. VÂNG LỊNH NHỮNG QUAN THẦY CỘNG-SẢN, TÊN KHỦNG BỐ NÀY ĐÃ GIỤT MÌN XE ĐÒ MỸ TÂN VÀ 2 XE LAMBRETTA CHỞ HÀNH KHÁCH GỒM NHỮNG NÔNG DÂN VÀ TRẺ CON. BẮT ĐƯỢC TÊN NÀY, QUÂN ĐỘI ĐÃ TRỪ ĐƯỢC MỘT TÊN SÁT NHƠN PHÁ HOẠI NGUY HIỂM. ĐÂY TÊN KHỦNG BỐ VIỆT CỘNG PHẠM HÒA, THỦ PHẠM VỤ SÁT HẠI 83 ĐỒNG BÀO VÔ TỘI. NHỮNG TRẺ VÔ TỘI BỊ CHẾT THẢM THƯƠNG VÌ HÀNH ĐỘNG SÁT NHƠN CỦA TÊN KHỦNG BỐ VIỆT CỘNG. CHIẾC XE LAMBRETTA ĐÃ BỊ TAN NÁT DO TÊN KHỦNG BỐ VIỆT CỘNG GIỤT MÌN. TOÀN DÂN LÊN ÁN BỌN VIỆT CỘNG KHÁT MÁU! SP-1137 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` A VIET CONG TERRORIST HAS BEEN CAPTURED The Viet Cong terrorist who detonated mines and massacred 83 innocent compatriots on the Tuy Hoa-Phong Nien road was captured by the 47th Regiment while he was laying his 17th mine. Following the orders of his Communist masters, this terrorist detonated mines under a My Tan bus and 2 Lambretta vehicles carrying passengers who were peasants and children. By capturing him, the army has eliminated a dangerous murderer and saboteur. This is the Viet Cong terrorist Pham Hoa, the chief culprit in the killing of 83 innocent compatriots. The innocent children who died a pitiful death because of the Viet Cong terrorist's murderous act. The Lambretta that was smashed to pieces by the mine the Viet Cong terrorist detonated. THE WHOLE PEOPLE CONDEMN THE BLOODTHIRSTY VIET CONG! SP-1137 ``` Reading 'ĐÒ MỸ TÂN' as the bus name 'My Tan' ('Mỹ Tân') is FRAME's interpretation; the phrase may instead describe the vehicle as a modern American-made bus ('xe đò Mỹ tân'). Translation keeps the first reading. [← VC Stolen Rice Returned to the People](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vc-stolen-rice-returned-to-the-people-1965/) [Chiến thắng tại Kim-Hải của quân dân tỉnh Phước-Tuy ngày 11-11-1965 (Victory by the GVN Forces and People at Kim Hai Province of Phuoc Tuy, November 11, 1965) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victory-kim-hai-phuoc-tuy-1965/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)