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The Star's Pulitzer prizewinning Jim Berryman catches President Kennedy in a typical press conference
gesture. Star Cartoonist Gib Crockett, recent Freedom Award winner, delineates the President at right.
The Cartoonists Kennedy
THOUGH nearly everybody has his
own way of looking at President
Kennedy, few people are as clear
about the way the President shapes
up as the editorial cartoonists of lead
ing newspapers. These artists view
the President’s real features mainly
as a point of departure for distortions
that make his face match their con
ception of his political personality.
From the deft pen strokes of the car
toonists, one or more Kennedy sea
tures. such as shock of hair, small
nose, toothy smile, broad forehead or
enthusiastic grin, tend to take over
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A tolerant and superior attitude
pervades President's face here.
SUNDAY. THZ STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON. D. C., MARCH 18. 1962
the whole face. Mr. Kennedy’s overall
boyish look offers the widest scope for
caricature, and editorial cartoonists
are fond of pitting his juvenile inno
cence against opponents depicted as
wicked elders.
A good editorial cartoon helps a
reader to grasp the key issues in a
complex situation, and to appreciate,
usually with some degree of amuse
ment, the paper’s point of view about
the matter at hand. Despite the satire
inherent in cartoon-lampoon style,
and despite the occasional sting of a
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JFK pulls a Democratic victory
out of the hat as Jackie smiles.
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cartoon caption, the drawings pretty
much follow the spirit of political fun.
To prove their point, some 76
members of the American Association
of Editorial Cartoonists drew carica
tures of the President, bound them in
to a volume and presented them to
him at the White House, with best
wishes The AAEC was founded in
1957 and is composed of more than
100 editorial cartoonists in the U. S.
and Canada whose political panels
amuse millions of readers every day.
Here are some examples of their car
toonistic views of Mr. Kennedy.
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An older looking President bur
dened with problems of state.
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