Was your family all together for Thanksgiving? – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Was your family all together for Thanksgiving? comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its title asks whether a family was all together for Thanksgiving, and the drawing turns that domestic question toward My Lai, where American soldiers killed unarmed Vietnamese villagers in March 1968. The killings stayed largely hidden until a former soldier wrote to President Nixon and Congress later that year. In November 1969, Seymour Hersh's reporting and Life magazine's publication of photographs made the massacre widely known. The drawing's publication date, November 28, 1969, falls the day after Thanksgiving, when many families had just sat down together, which gives the cartoon its sharp irony.
| Medium | 1 drawing : black ink over pencil, with tonal film on illustration board ; 40.4 x 30.2 cm. (sheet) |
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| Genre | is in fact, My Lai. Initial press reports confused the name of the attacked village with the refugee camp to which the survivors of the massacre were taken. Title inscribed below image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.161) A massacre in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai occurred in March of 1968. Atrocities were not made public until later that year when an ex-soldier wrote to President Nixon and Congress, telling them of the massacre of innocent men, women, and children by American soldiers. Public outrage forced the United States government to launch an investigation into the My Lai killings. Darcy's cartoon appeared with an editorial critical of the American military's action. Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress). Published in: Newsday, November 28, 1969. |
| Notes | 1969 Nov. 28 [publication date] |
| Subjects | Massacres--Vietnam--1960-1970. My Lai 4 (Vietnam)--Massacre, 1968. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,138 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156087 |
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