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...
Letter from George Bomford of the United States Army Ordnance Department to Mississippi Congressman William Haile of Wilkinson County on the question of arms for each state's militia. Bomford explains how arms for each state's militia are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Cuban leader Fidel Castro rides in a Jeep with a man labeled "Soviets" as they drive along a road leading into a jungle. The road is labeled "Central American inroads." The Jeep...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Caspar Weinberger is in his office crawling on the floor and talking on the phone. Projectiles and shells are being fired through the window and wall from big guns at the...
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. Two men dressed as American and British Army generals fire cannons at each other from close range. The British general wears a wig, and his coat is labeled "Counci.l" Between...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev stands on top of a pile of Soviet weapons and tanks. He is saying, "Reagan's out to start a war!" In the far background the Kremlin in Moscow can be seen, and a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. The earth is shown as the head of a man whose clothes are tattered and torn. He stands with cane in hand on the nose of one of many missiles and looks up at a crescent moon....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A small child wearing one piece pajamas and holding a teddy bear is standing on the surface of the earth looking toward a huge moon in a dark sky. No stars can be seen. An...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The barrel of a huge cannon labeled "Growing war in Vietnam" is pointing almost straight up, and a young woman labeled "World peace" with a laurel wreath on her head sits on its...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Uncle Sam sit on opposite sides of a rocket labeled "Arms Limitation Talks." The rocket is also marked with the atomic symbol. Part of the rocket body is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Viet Cong" plays a piano with three pipes on top that resemble cannon barrels. The song on the piano is called, "Stop the bombing." The cannons are emitting...
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. Pennsylvania senator Hugh Scott is sitting on a big gun barrel holding a popped balloon. Where the balloon popped are the words, "Cease-fire trial balloon...Pop." Shells are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson and Leonid Brezhnev are in drag strip cars shaped like nuclear missiles. Each car has the atomic symbol near the nose of the rocket shape. The cars are side by...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. The moon is in the foreground and Earth is in the background. Uncle Sam is standing on Earth (in the United States). He extends his bent, elongated left leg toward the surface of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A cannon labeled "Univ. [University] of Iowa" is in position to be fired. A man with a goatee and wearing a college mortarboard labeled [Donald] "Barnett" is in the barrel of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A large ship labeled "Russian Navy" is steaming through the Mediterranean Sea. The gun mounted at the ship's prow has been fired toward some small ships in the distance. A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam holds the naked frame of an umbrella labeled "Treaty banning nuclear weapons from outer space." A missile labeled "New Russian orbiting bomb" flies above Uncle Sam.The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A Vietnamese man with a rifle over one shoulder stands behind a short-barreled cannon. Inserted into the barrel, as if to replace it, is a long tube labeled with "Viet Cong claims...
