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A famous handbill circulated on November 21, 1963 In Dallas, Texas.

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Date: 2006-11-22 07:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jerril
"Our friends (Cuba, Katanga, Portugal)"

waitaminute.

Cuba went Communist in the '50s, didn't it?
And the hand bill is highly anti-godless-commie-pinko-bastards.

I'm totally confused about the US having any kind of alliance with Katanga during it's brief existance, although at least Portugal was a NATO member by this point.

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Date: 2006-11-22 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Cuba went commie in 1959, but there were resistors against Castro. Remember the Bay of Pigs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_invasion)?

That's what they're talking about.

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Date: 2006-11-22 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com
Wow.

Imagine what such a poster would look like today, with the current resident.

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Date: 2006-11-23 04:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lots42.livejournal.com
So it's wrong to fuck with Cuba but it's also wrong not to prosecute commies. I love this handbill.

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Date: 2006-11-23 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toku666.livejournal.com
It would have been really nice if he could have at least said something about the Wall.

Yeah, this handbill is slanted (natch) but not that terribly far off from the truth.

Hint: Lee doesn't really think the Kennedy/Johnson years are much to crow about, and would even class them as an embarassment as far as foreign policy goes.

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