Pollution: Keep America Beautiful -- Horseback

More than four decades ago, the Ad Council partnered with Keep America Beautiful to create a powerful visual image that dramatized how litter and other forms of pollution were hurting the environment, and how every individual has the responsibility to help protect it. The ad, which featured Native American actor Iron Eyes Cody, "The Crying Indian," first aired on Earth Day in 1971. Created by ad agency Marstellar, Inc., the campaign used the line, "People Start Pollution. People can stop it." The ad became one of the most memorable and successful campaigns in advertising history and was named one of the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th Century by Ad Age Magazine.

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[darrinbaker00]

Iron Eyes Cody's Face + William Conrad's Voice = The Greatest PSA Campaign Ever!

[RedfireBlueice]

I remember this commercial when I was little and still think we haven't learned anything since then. I still see people polluting and throwing garbage where it shouldn't be. Even those signs for fines when littering doesn't work.

[essertpitay]

@peapod8 I shall read the book. Most of my life I have been in the packaging industry.

[BATWOMANN233]

LeBrick is crying

[BATWOMANN233]

Teary-Eyes Crybaby is acutally LeBooHoo James

[BATWOMANN233]

@tuttt99 his name is teary-eyed crybaby

[BATWOMANN233]

if u look really close, its really bebron crying

[SDBossofBosses]

He's crying because he saw a half eaten canolli on the ground that he would of loved to have eaten. Poor Guido! I love Italians by the way, love em!

[WC3POchannel10A]

@darthdrk I think William Conrad.

[darthdrk]

Hmmm, is that Ben Cartwright  narrating ? Loren Greene ? Sounds like it.

[NickB1967]

But what really makes the ad is the booming narrator voice of the late William Conrad.

[greymilton]

@unlikeanyotherhuman I agree. Forget the religious aspect... being connected to the land is more "God-ly than anything else. Every being, every animal has a place and should be respected no matter how great or small.