On Saturday, April 29, 2008, Barak Obama traveled with Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey Jr. by train from Philadelphia to Harrisburg. Along the historic Main Line just west of Philadelphia, Obama spoke first to an estimated crowd of 6000 listeners at the Wynnewood train station, shown here.

Obama's 4-car train stopped subsequently in Paoli, Downingtown and Lancaster.

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John Hansen-Flaschen, 2008.
www.jflashphoto.com

What's wrong with this picture?

Within two blocks of Overbrook High School on Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia, no less
than 3 billboards glorify a contract killer. The babe on the billboard adores a man aiming a handgun.

This is not the place or time to be selling a movie called HITMAN. West Philadelphia is beset with
hand gun violence. The map below shows the frequency of aggravated assaults committed with a
gun in the year 2006 near Overbrook High and the HITMAN billboard shown above.

What's wrong with Clear Channel Outdoor, the Philadelphia-based advertising company that
posted these billboards?

Clear Channel Outdoor,Tell Clear Channel what you think about their billboards:

Clear Channel Outdoor
9130 State Road
Philadelphia, PA 19136
Phone: 215.827.1100
FAX: 215.827.1101

Encourage Philadelphia City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell to demand removal of the HITMAN
billboards from the streets of Philadelphia. Ask her to introduce legislation banning public
advertising that depicts illegal use of handguns.

Until these billboards are gone, the City of Brotherly Love isn't.

John Hansen-Flaschen
www.jflashphoto.com