"I don't like to do posters," Rockwell said, "They're all propaganda... I don't like to do pictures which glorify killing in a good way."(Gillis, 97) He began innocently with Willie Gillis, a quiet guy who was caught in the first draft and eventually turned up on the cover of the Post as a G.I. with a food parcel and hungry friends. Before Willie had a chance to battle his way through hospitality, Rockwell's war got serious: Let's give him enough and on time (as seen in the picture on page one). (Illustrtor, 56) A friend of his, Colonel Fairfax Ayers, made arrangements to have a machine gun and crew driven to Rockwell's studio. This painting was to be an action picture with guns blazing, and at first Rockwell thought this a little distracting because everything was clean. The gunners were more than willing to have their uniforms torn and soiled by the artist. (Gillis, 97) In the original sketch, the gunner was smiling, to encourage the people back home to keep the ammo coming. Faced with the real machine

As the struggle for racial equality grew more ugly, a solemn Norman Rockwell painting "Southern justice," completed for the Look magazine in 1964, commemorated the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. (NR.67) The impact of the impressionistic sketch, in brown with red bloodstains was selected instead of his finished work. The painting shows dead bodies all around two standing people. One person is standing while the one standing is helping another. The person standing is white and the person being helped is black.

It was voted the peoples favorite Norman Rockwell cover, in 1951. Another symbolic picture would be, in the 1960's when Rockwell turned to international topics, such as Peace Corps (John F. Kennedy's Legacy), in which JFK appears. He also painted many pictures about space age and astronauts. "There was a change in the thought climate in America brought on by scientific advance, the atom bomb, two world wars, and Mr. Freud and psychology.... Now I am Wildly excited about painting contemporary subjects.... pictures about civil rights, astronauts, Peace Corps, and the poverty program. It is wonderful," said Rockwell (NR, 48)

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