--- title: 'Wanted: information on over 1300 men missing in action' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viva-wanted-missing-in-action-1973/ description: A poster styled as a Wild West wanted notice, with torn paper edges and slab lettering, seeks information on "over 1300 men missing in action and those… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Wanted: information on over 1300 men missing in action](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/viva-wanted-missing-in-action-1973.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/viva-wanted-missing-in-action-1973.jpg) # Wanted: information on over 1300 men missing in action A poster styled as a Wild West wanted notice, with torn paper edges and slab lettering, seeks information on "over 1300 men missing in action and those assumed captured". Body text tells the case of one Navy pilot photographed in North Vietnamese custody and states that the list supplied by North Vietnam is "inaccurate and incomplete". A photograph and the line "You are public opinion" ask the viewer to press for an accounting. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` WANTED Information leading to the accounting of OVER 1300 MEN MISSING IN ACTION & THOSE ASSUMED CAPTURED Lt. Dodge, a navy pilot, was shot down over North Vietnam. A photograph of Lt. Dodge being escorted by North Vietnamese first appeared in the Paris Match in 1967. His name has always accompanied his picture which has appeared on the cover of Life magazine and on the cover of over five million VIVA brochures. One place his name does not appear, is on the so-called "complete" list of Prisoners of War that North Vietnam has given our government. He is only one of the many men of whom there is proof of capture, whose names do not appear living or dead on the list. NORTH VIETNAM PROMISED TO RELEASE ALL PRISONERS OF WAR HELD IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND TO SUPPLY A LIST OF THESE MEN IMMEDIATELY UPON THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE TREATY. THE LIST THEY SUPPLIED IS BOTH INACCURATE AND INCOMPLETE. North Vietnam and her allies must know that the eyes of every person of good conscience throughout the world are upon them. The power of public opinion must be mustered, as never before in history, to demand that the terms of the Peace Treaty are complied with and the Missing in Action are identified and ALL our Prisoners of War are returned. MISSING? ALIVE? YOU ARE PUBLIC OPINION YOU CAN HELP Contact VIVA VOICES IN VITAL AMERICA [illegible] LE CONTE AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 • TELEPHONE (213) 473-[illegible] ``` Body text is very small; read from the 1024 px derivative and an enlarged crop of the master, with a few words at the right-hand edge of paragraphs uncertain. The street number in the credit line is illegible. [← U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! Stop racism! Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, Washington, D.C.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sds-us-out-of-se-asia-inauguration-day-1973/) ["We never stop praising the thoughts of our Chairman Mao" (museum title), Xinjiang poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-never-stop-praising-mao-thought-poster-xinjiang-1973/) ## Using the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.