Oral history.; An interview with Pete Hansen conducted on August 11, 2006. Mr. Sloan is an operating room technician in Gulfport, Mississippi. He describes being at the hospital as Hurricane Katrina arrived.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Hubert Humphrey's face is shaped like a balloon, and the balloon is floating over the Chicago city skyline. The string tying the balloon is labeled "The nomination." The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson pedals in the first seat of a bicycle built for two. Behind him sits Robert F. Kennedy. Johnson apparently thinks Hubert Humphrey sits in the second...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jerry Fearing. Henry Kissinger is shown sitting on a park bench holding a bag labeled "U.S. policy." In his hand is some of the seed he has been feeding to the birds. All the birds that had...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. A male Northern cardinal drapes a banner labeled "N.L. pennant" across its nest, which rests on top of the Gateway Arch at St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis skyline is seen under...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A gangster-type man wearing a trench coat labeled "Crime issue" leans against a wall underneath a sign that reads, "Mayoral race." In the distance is the New Orleans skyline....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge cornucopia is in the center of the cartoon, with the small end in the foreground. The cornucopia is labeled, "An affluent society," and its large mouth is stuffed to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wearing track shorts and shoes and labeled, "Candidate" on his back is sitting atop a track hurdle labeled "Qualification deadline." Ahead of him on the track are two more...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A policeman labeled, "Under-staffed police" stands under a night sky with a city skyline in the background. Club in hand, he is watching a man watching in the foreground of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A very tall man dressed in a police uniform and holding a truncheon points to his badge which reads, "N.O. Police." Behind him, much smaller, are buildings of a city skyline....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An policeman dressed in an old-fashioned uniform carries a baton labeled "Archaic Sunday laws." The policeman stands in front of a store naned Hardwick's Hardware. The New...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. City Hall in New Orleans is shown in the background with "City in crisis" above it. In the foreground is a voting booth with curtain open to reveal the voting machine inside....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ernest Morial and New Orleans city councilman Joseph V. DiRosa are dressed as train conductors. Candidates for mayor of New Orleans, they are arguing beside the tracks where...
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. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro sit at a theater dressing room mirror. Brezhnev holds a pot of grease paint and an applicator, and his face is covered with the paint which...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial is walking, wearing a sandwich-board that reads, "Re-elect Morial Mayor." The New Orleans skyline is in the background. The cartoon caption...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial, dressed in overalls, hammers a sign to a brick building. The sign reads, "Every litter bit hurts! New city penalties: municipal court special...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial, labeled "Short revenues," is shown as a short man with the New Orleans skyline in the background. Morial is carrying a book labeled "Budget."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans has marks above it that indicate fighting inside the building. The city skyline is in the background. The stadium sign has on the marquee:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men sit facing each other, talking, on brick steps (stoops? rooftops?). The New Orleans skyline with the Superdome can be seen in the background, along with the moon. One of...
