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GIB CROCKETT, Washington Star
In 1967, as Americans divided over the Vietnam War, Washington Star cartoonist Gib Crockett depicted President Johnson as a slick medicine salesman, trying to sell peace to the American people, while heavily armed South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky interrupted his pitch. Johnson met Ky on the Pacific island of Guam to push for elections, which Ky held in 1967. During his forty-two-year career, Crockett worked as the chief editorial cartoonist at the Washington Star from 1965 to 1975.
Gib Crockett. ‘Go ‘Way, Boy, You Bother Me!' 1967. Published in the Washington Star, March 21, 1967. India ink and crayon drawing. Gift of Gib Crockett, 1973. |