J. Earle Bowden Collection - User contributions [en]

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2014-08-13T14:27:21Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 December 22 PNJ
| Title = Old-Fashioned Morality
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 14 in. x 22 in.
| Description = A stand alone editorial cartoon featuring a representative of ‘the dishonest and corrupt’ putting a representative of ‘old-fashioned morality’ in an electric chair, and commenting ‘just relax, I’m just trying to enlighten you.’

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[[Category:Morality ]][[Category:Electric_Chair ]][[Category:Execution ]]

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2014-08-13T14:26:17Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-13T14:26:06Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 December 15 PNJ
| Title = How’s This for a Western Suit, Lyndon?
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 13 in. x 19 1/2 in.
| Description = A stand alone editorial cartoon featuring French President Charles De Gaulle, wearing a nuclear missile suit, saying to President Lyndon Baines Johnson, ‘how’s this for a western suit?’

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[[Category:French_President ]][[Category:Charles_De_Gaulle]][[Category:President_De_Gaulle]][[Category:Nuclear_Missile]][[Category:President_Johnson]][[Category:Lyndon_B._Johnson]][[Category:International_Politics]]

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2014-08-13T14:24:33Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-13T14:24:21Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 December 8 PNJ
| Title = There’s That Confounded Mule!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 13 ½ in. x 17 7/8 in.
| Description = A stand alone editorial cartoon, after the death of President Kennedy, shows the new President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, rolling up his sleeves, as he prepares to tackle the ‘confounded mule’ of world problems.

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[[Category:President_Kennedy]][[Category:John_F._Kennedy]][[Category:Assassination]][[Category:President_Johnson]][[Category:Lyndon_B._Johnson]]

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2014-08-13T14:23:01Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-13T14:22:49Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 December 1 PNJ
| Title = My Own Flavor of Independence
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 17 ¼ in. x 22 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s John M. Hightower column ‘Latins Want U.S. Money, Plus Independence’ noting the progress of the Alliance for Progress aid program from the perspective of a tour of South America. The cartoon features Uncle Sam trying to feed tonics of honey, technology know-how, and Alliance for Progress to a military representative of South America who remarks ‘Delicious but let me add my own flavor of democracy.’

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[[Category:Alliance_for_Progress_Program]][[Category:South_America]][[Category:Uncle_Sam]][[Category:Technology ]][[Category:Democracy]][[Category:Independence]][[Category:Foreign_Aid]]

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2014-08-13T14:21:27Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-13T14:21:14Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 November 24 PNJ
| Title = There Must Be An Easier Way to Democracy
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 12 7/8 in. x 20 1/8 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s John M. Hightower column ‘Even Latin Junta Dislikes Military Rule’ reporting his tour of South America, where dictatorships are overthrown by military juntas who promise to move toward democracy, but the process is slow and difficult for the average South American. The cartoon features a South American overshadowed by a threatening gun-toting form representing military rule.

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[[Category:South_America]][[Category:Dictatorship]][[Category:Military_Rule]][[Category:Juntas]][[Category:International_Politics]][[Category:Democracy]]

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2014-08-13T14:19:53Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-13T14:19:41Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 November 17 PNJ
| Title = Where’s The Fire?
| Medium = Ink on paper
| Size = 15 1/8 in. x 19 ¾ in.
| Description = A stand alone editorial cartoon showing a fireman (the United States) rushing a bucket of water (Latin American aid) to Latin and South America while Fidel Castro (the Red threat) blankly inquires ‘where’s the fire?’ The United States through its Alliance for Progress program tried to fund growth and modernization of South American countries as a means of keeping them democratic despite increasing pressure by Castro on Latin American and South American countries to adopt communism.

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[[Category:Latin_America]][[Category:South_America]][[Category:Castro]][[Category:Red_Threat]][[Category:Alliance_for_Progress_Program]][[Category:Communism]][[Category:International_Politics]][[Category:Foreign_Aid]]

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2014-08-13T14:18:00Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-13T14:17:47Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 November 10 PNJ
| Title = I’ll Be Around
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 14 3/4 in. x 18 3/4 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Frank Carey column ‘Scientists Watch Fallout Peril; Treaty Could Fail’ noting the treaty banning all but underground nuclear testing and the concerns of scientists over fallout. The cartoon shows Nikita Khrushchev, Charles De Gaulle, and the Bomb (nuclear peril) singing ‘I’ll Be Around’ as both John F. Kennedy and Nikita hold copies of the treaty.

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[[Category:Nikita_Khrushcev]][[Category:Charles_De_Gaulle]][[Category:Bomb]][[Category:John_F._Kennedy]][[Category:President_Kennedy]][[Category:Nuclear_Testing]][[Category:Nuclear_Testing_Ban]]

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2014-08-13T14:16:23Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:26:37Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 November 3 PNJ
| Title = The Order We Hope Never Comes
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 14 1/2 in. x 22 in.
| Description = Accompanying the J. Earle Bowden column ‘Warbirds Ready to Fly From Colorado Silos’ noting his tour of western Colorado missile sites and bases. The cartoon shows a hand preparing to light the ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) while the same hands clutch both the olive branch of peace and the lightning bolts of war. The caption on the cartoon reads “The order we hope never comes…”

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[[Category:Intercontinental Ballistic Missile]][[Category:ICBM]][[Category:Colorado ]][[Category:Warbirds ]][[Category:Missile_Sites ]][[Category:Military Bases ]]

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2014-08-12T21:24:48Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:24:23Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 October 27 PNJ
| Title = You Disturbed Child!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 14 1/8 in. x 20 7/8 in.
| Description = A stand alone editorial cartoon featuring Uncle Sam, burdened with the ‘Troubled World’ child whose toys are a ‘brush wars’ knife, an Asia club, and an Arms Race rocket, while Uncle Sam remarks ‘You…you troubled child!’

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[[Category:Asia]][[Category:Uncle_Sam]][[Category:Arms_Race]][[Category:Asia]][[Category:International_Politics]]

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2014-08-12T21:23:32Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:22:55Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 October 20 PNJ
| Title = That’s No Hay-vanna Ceegar, Neighbor
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 15 in. x 19 7/8 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Bem Price column ‘Confusion, Obfuscations, Secrecy’ covering the one year anniversary of the Cuban military buildup and the standoff between Washington and Moscow. The cartoon shows Fidel Castro holding an ‘El Russo’ cigar, but it is really a missile, while Uncle Sam remarks ‘That’s No Hay-vanna Ceegar, Neighbor.’

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[[Category:Cuba]][[Category:Military]][[Category:Missile]][[Category:Uncle_Sam]][[Category:Havana Cigar ]][[Category:Communism]][[Category:Anniversary ]][[Category:Moscow ]]

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2014-08-12T21:20:55Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:20:28Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 October 13 PNJ
| Title = Florida’s New Bottle
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 11 1/2 in. x 17 3/4 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Bem Price column ‘Space Center Creates Boom in East Florida’ noting the growth around Cape Canaveral due to the space program. The cartoon features the Florida Economy baby, happily sucking at the large baby bottle of money representing the space program funds coming into the state.

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[[Category:Space Center]][[Category:East Florida]][[Category:Cape Canaveral ]][[Category:Space_Program]][[Category:Florida Economy]]

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2014-08-12T21:17:00Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:16:46Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 October 6 PNJ
| Title = Please Be Calm!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 17 in. x 22 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s John M. Hightower column ‘Dean Rusk Calm, Cool, Optimistic’ about United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk, negotiating amid crises around the world. The cartoon features Dean Rusk trying to avoid the arrows of India, Berlin, Laos, South Vietnam, and Cuba.

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[[Category:United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk]][[Category:Secretary Rusk ]][[Category:Negotiations ]][[Category:India]][[Category:Berlin]][[Category:Laos ]][[Category:South_Vietnam]][[Category:Cuba]][[Category:Communism]][[Category:International_Politics]]

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2014-08-12T21:13:39Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:13:27Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 September 29 PNJ
| Title = Oh Britannia!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 12 3/4 in. x 22 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Arthur Gayshon column ‘Profumo, De Gaulle Aid Laborites’ Power Grab’ noting the Conservative and Labour Party fight in Great Britain that affects Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The cartoon features Harold Macmillan tied in a straitjacket of the Profumo mess, being yelled at on the topics of De Gaulle and the Laborites.

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[[Category:Charles_De_Gaulle]][[Category:Great_Britian]][[Category:Prime_Minister_Harold_McMillan]][[Category:Profumo]][[Category:Labour Party]][[Category:Harold McMillan ]][[Category:International_Politics]][[Category:Conservative Party ]]

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2014-08-12T21:09:48Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:08:49Z

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2014-08-12T21:07:36Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:07:19Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 September 22 PNJ
| Title = Dragon Lady
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 13 1/2 in. x 16 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Malcolm W. Browne column ‘Vietnamese Crisis Crosses Religious, Political Lines’ noting that political and religious issues divide South Vietnam. The cartoon pictures South Vietnam as a woman who is holding together a world broken by religion and politics.

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[[Category:Vietnam]][[Category:South_Vietnam]][[Category:International_Politics]]

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2014-08-12T21:06:18Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:05:54Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 September 15 PNJ
| Title = Peace and Prosperity
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 11 in. x 20 1/4 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Henry S. Bradsher column ‘Nehru Visions World Of Order, Prosperity’ about an interview about India with Prime Minister Nehru. The cartoon features Nehru, strolling, repeating his ‘peace and prosperity’ mantra but in the background lurks Red China and Mao Tse-Tung with a knife, ready to attack.

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[[Category:Prime_Minister_Nehru]][[Category:Peace and Prosperity]][[Category:China]][[Category:India]][[Category:International_Politics]]

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2014-08-12T21:04:33Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:04:10Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 September 8 PNJ
| Title = Just Friendly Persuasion
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 11 1/2 in. x 24 in.
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s John Roderick column ‘Mao Still Advocates Violence, Revolution’ noting Mao Tse-Tung’s continual call for struggle. The cartoon features Mao toting a machine gun as he runs over a globe that is partly covered with blood.

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[[Category:Mao_Tse-Tung]][[Category:Communism]][[Category:Revolution]][[Category:International_Politics]]

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2014-08-12T21:01:34Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T21:01:17Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 August 4 PNJ
| Title = Haile Selassie
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 13 ½ in. x 24 in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Dennis Lee Royle column ‘Haile Selassie: Last Of Imperial Monarchs’ noting the lifestyle of Ethiopian Emperor Hailie Selassie I and economic and political trends in Ethiopia. The cartoon features Hailie Selassie playing with a deck of ‘power’ and ‘more power’ cards.

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[[Category:Ethopian Emperor Hailie Selassie I]][[Category:Economic Trends ]][[Category:Political Trends ]][[Category:International_Politics]][[Category:Imperial Monarch]]

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2014-08-12T20:58:24Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:58:08Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 July 21 PNJ
| Title = Sittin’ On Top of Th’ World
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 15 1/2 in. x 24 in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s George Arfeld column ‘Problems Confuse Cuba But Red Rule to Stay?’ updating the political and economic conditions in Cuba. The cartoon features Fidel Castro and Cuba sitting in the palm of the Russian Communism hand and arm.

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[[Category:Cuba]][[Category:Fidel_Castro]][[Category:International_Politics]][[Category:Russia]][[Category:Russian_Communism ]][[Category:Cuban_Economic_Conditions]]

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2014-08-12T20:56:08Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:55:53Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 July 14 PNJ
| Title = The Moon Shot Debate
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 15 in. x 24 ¾ in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s John Barbour column ‘Debate Continues—Go to Moon or Not?’ noting the ongoing debate between those who support the mission to the moon and those who would see the funds used for other important domestic programs. The cartoon features two individuals arguing while between them the U.S. Moon Shot rocket is preparing to launch.

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[[Category:Moon_Mission]][[Category:U.S. Moon Shot Rocket ]][[Category:Space Race ]]

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2014-08-12T20:54:04Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:53:51Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 July 7 PNJ
| Title = The Same Old Play…Filibuster!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 13 ½ in. x 23 3/4 in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Warren Duffee column ‘Russell Readies Forces For Filibuster Climax’ noting the plans of Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell to filibuster the civil rights proposals of President John F. Kennedy. The cartoon features ‘Coach Russell’ advising the Dixie football player, to remember the same old play, the filibuster.

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[[Category:Senator_Richard_B._Russel]][[Category:Civil_Rights]]

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2014-08-12T20:46:49Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:36:04Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 June 30 PNJ
| Title = Wow!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 11 in. x 22 in., matted
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s J. W. Davis column ‘The 14th: Power Grab Or Freedom Milestone?’ discussing the 14th amendment to the U. S. Constitution providing for equal access under the law to Negroes and the ongoing debate of its application amid the issue of integration. The cartoon shows an animated 14th amendment who is tied up with ribbons of Legal, Illegal, Human Freedom, and Federal Power Grab topics.

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[[Category:14th_Amendment]][[Category:U.S._Constitution]][[Category:Integration]][[Category:Segregation]][[Category:Human Freedom]]

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2014-08-12T20:34:54Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:34:39Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 June 23 PNJ
| Title = The Spy Game
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 14 in. x 22 in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Bem Price column ‘Quiet, Deadly, Hidden Espionage Army Uses All Sinister Devices’ noting the hidden war of spies and use of espionage by the West and East. The cartoon features the West (Kennedy) and the East (Khrushchev), each carrying a club and watching the other as they walk a continuous circle around a bag marked ‘the Spy Game.’

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[[Category:Espionage]][[Category:Spies ]][[Category:Kennedy]][[Category:John_F._Kennedy]][[Category:President_Kennedy]][[Category:Khrushcev]][[Category:Spy_Game]]

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2014-08-12T20:33:03Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:32:45Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 June 16 PNJ
| Title = Easier All The Time!
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 13 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Bem Price column ‘Awesome Space Weapons Not Pipe Dreams’ noting the discussion and development of nuclear space weapons. The cartoon features “the Bomb” representing the Arms Race, tearing the world in half, and exalting in how easier it gets with time.

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[[Category:Space Weapons]][[Category:Nuclear_Space_Weapons]][[Category:Arms_Race]]

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2014-08-12T20:31:13Z

Alexander Vega:

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2014-08-12T20:30:18Z

Alexander Vega:

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| Date = 1963 June 9 PNJ
| Title = Earl Warren
| Medium = Ink and graphite on paper
| Size = 10 in. x 22 in., attached to mat
| Description = Accompanying the Focus page’s Saul Pett column ‘Hit at Critics? Oh Boy! Says Warren: ‘It Makes You Cringe’ -- an interview with United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. The cartoon shows a smiling Earl Warren in robes and carrying a gavel.

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[[Category:Supreme_Court]][[Category:United_States_Supreme_Court]][[Category:Chief_Justice_Warren]][[Category:Earl_Warren]]

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2014-08-12T20:28:47Z

Alexander Vega: