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.
- Date
- 1973
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Voices in Vital America (VIVA), Los Angeles
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
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.
