Lorriane Schneider (1925-1972), a doctor’s wife, mother of four and printmaker, created one of the most emotionally charged posters of the Vietnam War era out of concern that her eldest son would be drafted into the army. When the poster was issued in 1967, few could foresee that Schneider’s petition for peace would become the anti-war icon it was then or is today, more than 40 years later.

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