Fifty-four years ago, back in 1963, the legendary political cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Bill Mauldin drew what many consider one of the most memorable op-ed cartoons, when he worked for the Chicago Sun-Times. Though it addressed a very different situation, the assassination of President Kennedy, it occurred to me that the drawing holds another resonance today, as the Party of Lincoln saw its leader give aid and comfort to white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK, marching with swastikas, Confederate flags, giving sieg heil salutes and calling out Nazi chants.
I offer Bill Mauldin's powerful, heart-breaking work about another time which still holds its meaning for a very different world.
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Donald Elisburg
8/20/2017 09:05:29 am
Bob,
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Robert Elisberg
8/20/2017 09:31:41 am
Donald, see what happens when you return! It's like magic. Yes, I was trying to describe to a friend the impact of seeing the Mauldin cartoon the day it appeared. He was saying that it almost was more suited for today's news. I said that as remarkably appropriate as it is for today, one has to step back and consider a numbed country in national shock the day after the President was killed. And then getting the morning Chicago Sun-Times and seeing this filling the entire back page. That is so movingly fits today's news is testament to Mauldin's great skill.
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