Pic 1: That looks like Thurgood Marshall on the right, so I suspect the other chap is another Justice–perhaps Earl Warren? Pic 2:Possibly another Justice? Pic 3:This is “Mr. Curtis,” possibly a senator or congressman? Pic 4:Mr. Griffiths, Possibly another Justice? Pic 5:Possibly another Senator, Congressman, or Justice? Pic 6:They appear to be wearing judicial robes. Pic 7:Two people introducing Harry Truman, probably at a Democratic convention Pic 8:No clues on this one. Pic 9:I know this person. From the same time frame. I thought he looked funny in it.
I suspect the time frame for these photos, except for the Truman-era photo, is 1964-1969, more likely toward the end of that than the beginning.
Yeah, I thought that was Adlai Stevenson, too. I’m just more familiar seeing him with a combover.
(pssst! #9 is LBJ–just threw it in for some comic relief, such as it is)
#5 is Senator Al D’Amato of NY. He got replaced by the current Sen. Schumer. #8 is definitely Senator Eugene McCarthy who ran for president on an anti-war platform in 1968.
Just so nobody replicates the fruitless search I just did concerning #4: according to Wikipedia the only U.S. Representative with the last name Griffiths was Percy W. Griffiths, who represented Ohio from 1943-1949. I assume that this is too early of a time frame to be relevant to these pictures. No senators have had the last name Griffiths.
1 - I’m pretty sure this isn’t Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall, but I don’t know who it IS…
2 - Definitely Speaker John McCormick.
3 - Maybe Dean Rusk, JFK’s and LBJ’s Secretary of State?
4 - Dunno who Mr. Griffiths is.
5 - This looks kinda like a young Congressman John Dingell to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dingell,_Jr.
6 - Stanley Reed and Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court, maybe?
7 - Definitely Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver, the Dems’ ticket in 1956.
8 - No idea who this is.
9 - Definitely LBJ!
I shared the links with a very well-informed political historian I know, and he wrote in reponse to my guesses:
*This was fun!
is definitely NOT Warren and Marshall, but I don’t know who they are.
correct
Certainly looks like Tom Curtis, a GOP House member from Missouri in the '50s/'60s.
The “Ms. Griffiths” is for Martha Griffiths, who is probably sitting next to this gentleman. Probably a House member…
looks so familiar!
guy on right could be Harry Blackmun, hard to say.
All the photos are badly blurred. My PC or some link problem?
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[li]Looks like it might be Warren[/li][li]Massachussets Congressman and Speaker of the House John J. McCormack[/li][li]?[/li][li]?[/li][li]?[/li][li]?[/li][li]L- Adlai Stevenson R- familiar face but not familiar enough to name[/li][li]Diplomat and one-time NY gubernatorial candidate Averill Harriman[/li][li]LBJ[/li][/ol]
Anyway, this was not a fluffy, puffy tv special, but had a certain amount of social commentary. There was a fair amount of canned new footage intertwined with the performance footage, but very few people were identified in either case.
It’s a combination of a) 40+ year old archive footage, b) crt-screen, as opposed to hi-def, and c), my “screen capture” abilities are basically Flintstone era.
