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. Ronald Reagan is in a room labeled "Reagan lab" and he is wearing a white lab coat. He is standing under a sign that reads, "Pledges to cut taxes, hike defense spending and...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the first of three frames, a uniformed Soviet soldier under a sign that reads "Soviet's 3 stage troop cut plan" is packing clothing into a footlocker labeled "Pack." In the...
Amendments: Proposed by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H. R. 18) to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States. Two hundred copies ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, with a pen in his hand, stands beneath a large gun barrel that is labeled, "U.S. Defense." From the barrel hangs a note: "Marked down $609...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A nervous Ronald Reagan is being squeezed between a rock labeled "Budget deficit" and a military tank with the barrel of the gun pointed at his face. Reagan is using a handsaw...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits at his desk with a worried look on his face. On his desk are two large books, labeled "Tax cuts" and "Budget cuts," a telephone, and papers labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In front of a door/building labeled "Department of Defense," two men face off, glaring at each other. The man labeled "Cap the knife" is Caspar Weinberger, and he is holding a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. French president Charles de Gaulle is holding an umbrella that is labeled, "U.S. defense alliance" to shield against an approaching rain storm labeled, "Soviet threat." He is...
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. Change of address notice from the Department of Defense.
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is kneeling down on the ground and is using a wrench labeled "Draft changes" to try to unbolt the fuse from a bomb that is labeled "Campus...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover and first five pages of a booklet compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Provides a synopsis of the events leading up to and including Freedom Summer 1964....
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is sitting at his desk between a small pile of domestic policy papers and a tall pile of defense policy papers. His jar of jelly beans is on the corner of the...
cartoon by John Stampone; A man labeled "Congressional doves" holds a picket sign that reads,"Eliminate the draft" His tie bears a peace symbol. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird stands face to face with the man, gestures over his shoulder and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A slight looking man labeled "U.S. taxpayer" walks beside Richard Nixon. He sweats and strains as he carries Attorney General John Mitchell on his shoulders labeled "Legal fees for...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A fat man labeled "Military budget" is seen from the back. Dressed in a military uniform and smoking a cigar, he is walking through a doorway that is not large enough for him....
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to lay a tax for revenue to provide for the common defense and carrying on of the Government of the Confederate States." By Mr. Sexton; Read first and second times, referred to Committee of Way and Means, and ordered...
