From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who appears to be a gangster stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. He smiles as he reads the words on a paper held in front of him by a long arm in a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev, wearing a cap with the Communist hammer and sickle symbol, stands at a line on the ground indicating a border between the U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia, with one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "N.O. taxpayer" stands before a framed painting. In the painting are a chart with a downward trend line labeled, "Flop in sales tax returns," dollar signs, jagged...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is parachuting down and is about to land in the zero of a large '70. The expression on the man's face is worried. The cartoon caption reads, "Happy...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large set of balance scales is labeled, "Recent voting patterns in Jefferson Parish." On the heavier side, labeled "30 percent voting (including the political bosses)" is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A child in a skeleton costume walks down the street carrying an enormous bag of candy labeled, "Trick or treat." The cartoon caption reads, "The affluent society."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A hawk perches on the forked branch of a tree with new spring leaves, above a nest labeled "Vietnam dispute." A dove is perched on the edge of a nest, which has four large eggs that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev are pushing baby carriages. Inside each carriage under a blanket is a missile. Nixon asks, "How do you feel about family planning?"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A large, covered, floating vessel labeled "Nixon's Ark" carries large guns pointing in all directions. President Richard Nixon stands on deck and looks into the sky. His thoughts are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. In the foreground, a patient labeled "John Q." is being forced to drink from a bottle labeled "Higher interest rates." Runtz's signature cat is beside John Q. holding a piece of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson is shown dressed as an Indian chief sitting in front of a tipi. A small man stands before Johnson with two signs, "Tax restorations" and "Tax cuts." Johnson has...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Robert Kennedy is trying to climb a steep cliff, but he has lost his hold. With his left hand, he clutches a tree branch labeled "Oregon," and his right hand cannot quite reach...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a hospital bed pulls the bedclothes up to his nose. He is afraid of what he sees at his window, a ghost labeled "Rising hospital rates." A hospital chart hangs from the foot...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The USS Pueblo is tied up at a dock, and it flies a flag that has a hammer and sickle and is labeled "North Korea." Lines indicate radio communications and are labeled "Inadequate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Two kites are caught in a tree labeled "Senate scrutiny." The kite labeled "Haynsworth" has been mostly consumed by the tree. The kite labeled "Carswell...Supreme Court nomination"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A man labeled "Czech people" stands in Central Europe in an area fenced by tall barbed wire. A flag with hammer and sickle is mounted on top of the fence. The horizon line is the...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding report of interview with Governor Hadley.
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
