Vintage anti-JFK GOP Coloring Book from Early 60s

[Capt. Obvious]

My mother, rest in peace, recently passed away. She was a life long democrat, her mother, however, was a life long republican. While going through things at my mother’s house in preparation for an estate sale I found an anti JFK coloring book my grandmother had saved along with some other republican memorabilia.

JFK has been so mythologized that for myself, growing up in 80s and 90s, it was surprising to see such harsh attacks leveled against him. Of course this was before his death, but, despite knowing that politics is a brutal sport, I was still taken aback. Most telling though is how similar many of the attacks in this comic book are to the charges being leveled against Obama and democrats now. The more thing change, I guess…

I’ve included some pictures. I have had no luck finding any information on this. If the readers of your site have any information I’d be interested. I don’t think Antique’s Roadshow is coming to Portland anytime soon.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/05/was_that_really_jfks_birth_certificate.php?ref=fpblg

This is funny. And really now, right wing attacks haven't changed in 50+ years.

[surrealAmerican]

1. k & r

Interesting images.


It's funny how people seem to think "negative campaigning" is some sort of new idea.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Wow. Things really haven't changed.

What stupid little inscriptions.

And, a similar anti-JFK coloring book is selling for $29.95. http://www.loriferber.com/jfk-coloring-book.html

[Dawson Leery]

3. Clearly, nothing has changed.

[Octafish]

4. Har har. It is to laugh.

How many good people have died to save this turd's friends a few dollars?



Operation COFFEECUP - How Reagan Worked to Stop Universal Health Coverage in 1961

[SpartanDem]

5. The GOP has been running the same play for the last 50 years

telling Americans Democrats are Harvard educated eggsheads, who waste tax dollars and are weak national secuity issues. The sad thing is the crap keeps working.

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

[Brickbat]

7. That's awesome. I love that stuff.

[hifiguy]

8. Same shit, different decade.

Repukes are what they are though what was once outlying insanity now defines their orthodoxy.

[LongTomH]

9. I lived in Oklahoma during the 60s..

...you should have seen the political cartoons and editorials in the Tulsa papers!

[Art_from_Ark]

16. I read the Tulsa World in the '60s

starting around 1966 when I first became aware of politics. The newspaper proclaiming Tulsa as "The Oil Capital of the World" was indeed, a very right-wing rag.

It did have a good Sunday comics section, though

[PatSeg]

10. Truly things have not changed

all that much. If you go back even farther to the thirties, you'll find that FDR was accused of similar things. Its good to revisit previous administrations to get some perspective about what is going on today.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. The more things change.....nt

[bupkus]

12. Right wing tactics haven't changed in 50 years

Because they are effective on enough simple minds to warrant keeping them in place.

[Cosmocat]

14. BINGO

it is the SAME crape, they just keep going it like a coach running the same running play that works most of the time.

They really only have a few go to moves and just keep cycling between them.

[LeftinOH]

13. Content aside, it's still interesting. Don't throw it away! n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. You'll also "love" this vintage pro George Wallace comic

Whole thing here:
http://www.ep.tc/problems/nineteen/

[Capt. Obvious]

18. That should have been a coloring book

[CBGLuthier]

20. the one terrible horrible time in america when for once

the right guy got shot.

[pepperbear]

17. we tend to see everything through the prism of the "Radical 60s", when in fact...

there has always been the same kind of "radical" in every age.

[HughBeaumont]

19. "DETH PANULS" . . . even back then!

News flash, GOP. Universal Health Care means government FUNDED, not government DICTATED . . . then and NOW.

And after all that fear-mongering, the for-profit health system their asshole party DID help nail in place now has a corporation do everything they said JFK would do in their puny little minds.

Way to go, dickface.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. And interestingly enough, it shows up last night on Hard Ball on MSNBC.

Think his staff reads DU? LOL.

[WCGreen]

22. Well, they don't believe in evolution...

why would anything change...