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Underground Newspaper Cover: The Great Speckled Bird
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Cover of "The Great Speckled Bird," an underground newspaper, featuring an illustration of a Frosted Flakes cereal box, pouring out atomic bombs on a Vietnamese family in a cereal bowl. A glass filled with political newspaper headline snippets is resting next to the bowl.
January 8, 1973
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WHi 50397
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