From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A father sits in a lawn chair in his backyard with his small son in his lap. They are reading a newspaper with headlines: "Interplanetary travel seen in twenty years" and "Apollo 10...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam stands in front of a space shuttle ready for launch (attached to Saturn rocket and fuel assembly, upright on the pad). It is labeled "Columbia...First space cargo."...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Newly elected President Richard Nixon is shown walking at the head of a closely following crowd of men labeled "Cabinet." Interior Secretary Walter Hickel lags behind the crowd,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A rocket, part of which is painted with an American flag, is labeled "Inflation." The body of the rocket is fat and bulging instead of lean, and it is trying to rise from the...
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...
cartoon by Vic Runtz; A worried looking American eagle has alighted on a branch. It drips blood labeled "Staggering waste in defense spending" from its breast. Below the branch a bear looks intently at the eagle. In the lower right corner, a cat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill are sitting at desks across from each other, and they are both shouting. Reagan is waving a large “Veto” stamp at O’Neill. A stamp pad is...
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. At the bottom of the cartoon is a map of Louisiana, labeled "La. launch pad." In the background, the horizon shows the curve of the earth, and planets are shown in the sky. On...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The Apollo 11 rocket, labeled "Moon walk mission," launches from the pad into the sky labeled "God's universe." Stars and the moon are seen in the sky; the billowing exhaust from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Ivey. A black arm band labeled "Grissom, White, Chaffee" circles the moon, which is shown in a dark sky above the Earth. Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; An "area town hall" is having "budget meetings." Bursting out of the roof is a missle labeled "tax rates." The missile "zooms" out of the building into the night sky.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A Vietnamese military officer drives a vehicle labeled "Viet Nam" under a prominent, hot sun. An insect is flying around the officer's head, its buzzing wings making the sound...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Richard Nixon speaks to a journalist (artist Runtz's signature cat) writing on a note pad labeled "Press." Nixon is saying, "...very helpful to have another active candidate." From...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A massive boulder that resembles former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's face and head sits atop a cliff that overlooks a mountain road. The boulder is labeled "Ike's reluctance." A...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; In the foreground is a man labeled "Congress" who is frantically pulling at a rope that is tied around the mouth of a large bag with a dollar sign on it. A hose in the mouth the money bag leads back to the head of a rocket...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "Congress" stands in the crossfire of two giant gun barrels, which have fired a barrage of letters at the man. The smoke from the gun barrel labeled "Gun lobby and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. The earth is personified with a human face in outer space with several bandages over wounded areas on the sphere. The bandages are labeled, "Vietnam; Cuba; Africa; Captive...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
