# Id these politicians? (Mostly 1960s era) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 29, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494 "2012-05-29T23:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/1 "2012-05-29T23:49:28Z")
Sorry for the quality: [Pic 1:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6197.jpg) That looks like Thurgood Marshall on the right, so I suspect the other chap is another Justice–perhaps Earl Warren? [Pic 2:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6196.jpg)Possibly another Justice? [Pic 3:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6195.jpg)This is “Mr. Curtis,” possibly a senator or congressman? [Pic 4:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6194.jpg)Mr. Griffiths, Possibly another Justice? [Pic 5:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6193.jpg)Possibly another Senator, Congressman, or Justice? [Pic 6:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6192.jpg)They appear to be wearing judicial robes. [Pic 7:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6200.jpg)Two people introducing Harry Truman, probably at a Democratic convention [Pic 8:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6198.jpg)No clues on this one. [Pic 9:](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=IMG_6199.jpg)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. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/2 "2012-05-30T00:06:48Z")
In number 7, that looks like Adlai Stevenson on the left. Number 9, I want to say is LBJ. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/3 "2012-05-30T00:09:28Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > In number 7, that looks like Adlai Stevenson on the left. > > Number 9, I want to say is LBJ. 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) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/4 "2012-05-30T00:25:38Z")
8 might be Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/5 "2012-05-30T01:52:24Z")
Number 2 looks like John McCormick of Massachusettes, who was Speaker of the House during that era. Number 3 is Tom Curtis, a Congressman from Missouri Number 7 is Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver. They were the 1956 Democratic nominees for President and Vice President. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/6 "2012-05-30T01:54:03Z")
Dammit, the only one I thought I recognized offhand was Adlai Stevenson. And yes, on the left of #7. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/7 "2012-05-30T02:03:53Z")
Number 8 looks like Senator Eugene McCarthy to me; it isn’t Adam Clayton Powell. Number 1 could be CJ Earl Warren or Justice Arthur Goldberg. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/8 "2012-05-30T03:33:50Z")
#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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/9 "2012-05-30T06:01:10Z")
Number 2 might by Harry Blackmun but the hair isn’t quite right (Blackmun had a receding hairline but it was pretty straight across). ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/10 "2012-05-31T12:20:54Z")
Thanks, all. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/11 "2012-05-31T12:38:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/12 "2012-05-31T15:46:49Z")
Could Mr. Griffiths (#4) be a UN delegate? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/13 "2012-06-25T16:50:06Z")
My reaction: 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](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! 1. is definitely NOT Warren and Marshall, but I don’t know who they are. 2. correct 3. Certainly looks like Tom Curtis, a GOP House member from Missouri in the '50s/'60s. 4. The “Ms. Griffiths” is for Martha Griffiths, who is probably sitting next to this gentleman. Probably a House member… 5. looks so familiar! 6. guy on right could be Harry Blackmun, hard to say. 7. correct 8. Eugene McCarthy 9. correct. - ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/14 "2012-06-25T17:32:22Z")
All the photos are badly blurred. My PC or some link problem? [ol] [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] ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/15 "2012-06-25T17:36:11Z")
Thanks. These were all snipped from [Simon & Garfunkel: Songs for America (1969)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2166123/), a tv special. Fragments of it are on youtube, but I don’t know if this segment was. 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. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/16 "2012-06-25T20:06:47Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > All the photos are badly blurred. My PC or some link problem? > > [li]Diplomat and one-time NY gubernatorial candidate Averill Harriman[/li][/LIST] I agree with the others who ID this person as Eugene McCarthy. I hvae confused the two before; for some reason they look alike to me in photos. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-politicians-mostly-1960s-era/623494/17 "2012-06-25T21:08:17Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > All the photos are badly blurred. My PC or some link problem? 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.