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"Who was that masked man, anyway?" "Lyndon Baines Johnson, and don't you forget it!!" /
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Description | Two panel editorial cartoon shows an old man with a long white beard (labeled "History") holding a scythe, pointing toward the figure of a man in a cowboy hat on a horse riding off into the sunset. He asks, "Who was that masked man, anyway?" The second panel shows former President Johnson grasping the old man by his coat front and saying menacingly, "Lyndon Baines Johnson, and don't you forget it!!" The cartoon was probably drawn as Johnson left office in 1969 to return to his ranch in Texas. Johnson reluctantly gave up the idea of running for a third term when his unpopularity over the Vietnam War appeared likely to paralyze the country. Marlette suggests, however, that he was not planning to go quietly into retirement. The allusion to the masked man refers to the question often asked at the end of an episode of The Lone Ranger, a radio and television program featuring a vigilante cowboy, popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. Marlette may have drawn this cartoon while he was still in college in Florida. He subsequently drew cartoons for the Charlotte Observer and other southern newspapers from 1972 until his death in 2007 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. He also drew the popular comic strip Kudzu. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Lone Ranger (Radio program)--1960-1970. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Presidential transitions--United States--1960-1970. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
