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title: Tell it to Hanoi
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yaf-tell-it-to-hanoi-1969/
description: A yellow poster headed "Tell it to Hanoi" in brush-style lettering sits above a large peace symbol, with the Young Americans for Freedom credit at the…
section: Collection
---

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[![Tell it to Hanoi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/yaf-tell-it-to-hanoi-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/yaf-tell-it-to-hanoi-1969.jpg)

# Tell it to Hanoi

A yellow poster headed "Tell it to Hanoi" in brush-style lettering sits above a large peace symbol, with the Young Americans for Freedom credit at the foot. It reuses the antiwar movement's own emblem and redirects the message to the North Vietnamese government, so that a call for peace is addressed to Hanoi rather than to Washington. The poster itself makes no other claim.

## Text on the object

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

```
TELL IT TO HANOI

Young Americans for Freedom
```

Whole text of the poster; the peace symbol is a drawn emblem, not text.

[← The New Left is revolting](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yaf-new-left-is-revolting-1969/) ["Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-freiheit-und-unabhaengigkeit-fuer-vietnam-appeal-1969/)

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