Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the locker room of the New Orleans Saints football team and three football players, a section of locker, and a chalkboard with "0-14" on it. Above all this is a dark cloud....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A commentator is watching a foot race from the reporter’s box. Racers are indicated only by feet and a cloud of dust. The commentator yells into the microphone, “It's down...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The cartoon is divided into two panels. The top panel depicts Sen. Kennedy sitting on a cloud labeled, "Political Future." The bottom panel shows Kennedy with a cloud, also...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev [?] sit in a car with their arms folded in a defiant pose. The car is stalled on railroad tracks and has been there for enough time to have cobwebs...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ariel Sharon walks out of a building labeled "Defense ministry." Above his head is a dark cloud labeled "Massacre findings." Marks drawn on the cloud indicate the hollow eye sockets and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Louisiana politician stands under an approaching dark grey cloud and cuts his eyes toward the cloud. Jagged lightning is labeled "Earnings tax." The man says, "I wasn't...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled Chehardy is using a pointer to indicate areas of a poster showing weather patterns. The top of the poster reads, "Jefferson's assessment climate," and the weather...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; The communist symbol of the sickle and the hammer hovers in "The Ominous Cloud." The word "congo" hovers over the jungle village.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man is sitting up in bed, having just awakened from a nightmare. He is sweating and afraid. He sees a menacing cloud of smoke outside his window that reads, "Revolution in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A U.S. soldier is standing at the edge of a cliff and is looking down. The cliff is labeled "U.S. position in Vietnam." A large cloud, personified with a face, is blowing wind...
Oral history.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Hubert H. Humphrey, dressed in cowboy attire, rides a snorting, bucking donkey, with its hind legs and hindquarters in the air. Beneath the donkey's suspended hind legs is a cloud...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam and another man [Soviet?], each carrying briefcases, stand facing two large doors. One door is labeled "Start...Strategic arms talks," and the other is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An oil barrel is on its side, and Jimmy Carter is on top of it crosswise and face down. Two large clouds are nearby [smoke?], one labeled “Imported oil prices" and the other...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man stands in a pile of hurricane debris labeled, "Gulf Coast." He is looking up at an elderly man at the top of a spinning cloud. The man is holding a top hat in the style of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A dove labeled "Peace hopes" carries an olive branch in its beak and stands on a round table in a room while looking up. The table has a sign that reads, "Paris talks" and is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in an armchair has been reading a book, his feet on the footstool. The book is being tossed to the floor, and the man has put his hands on the chair arms and is lifting...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. High above the New Orleans skyline, an old man with a long beard sits in a car on a cloud. The car is labeled, "Riverfront expressway" and has cloud-to-car cobwebs. In resonse...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Jeff officials" holds a newspaper in his hand with the headline, "Drainage bonds pass." Buildings are in the background. The man is speaking to an elderly man...
