The Hoover Vacuum Conspiracy Poster

USA c. 1970s

11 x 9 in (28 x 23 cm)

ID #FF19D-PK28-10-LZ

"THE HOOVER VACUUM / CONSPIRACY"

 

Poster for the Hoover Vacuum Conspiracy, an anti-war, anti-Nixon group responsible for raids at Selective Service headquarters in New Jersey, 1971. Draft board files/records at the headquarters were destroyed, and in their place a statement/manifesto for the group was left. The group rebuked the "Nixon myth" of winding the Vietnam War down, and claimed to exercise its right as declared in the Declaration of Independence to alter or abolish a government that has become destructive of the ends for which it was created, and institute a new one.

Poster is entirely in blue print on a white background, featuring photo of J. Edgar Hoover, final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), against an American flag background. Five outlines of hands holding up peace signs are in the foreground, as well as an outline of a vaccuum cleaner ("hoover").

Condition: Good; please note minor creasing on edges.

Material: Paper

100-250 anti-war boi conspiracy fbi government hoover nixon peace political poster protest raid seventies size-11-x-9 usa vintage poster