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.
- Date
- 1969
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Young Americans for Freedom (Washington, D.C.)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Semantic hijackingName-calling
- 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
TELL IT TO HANOI Young Americans for Freedom
Whole text of the poster; the peace symbol is a drawn emblem, not text.
