Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Photographer was Danny Lyons - more Bernie pics

[Jarqui]

Looks like John Lewis can't ignore Danny. This is what he said about him:

“This young white New Yorker came South with a camera and a keen eye for history. And he used these simple, elegant gifts to capture the story of one of the most inspiring periods in America’s twentieth century.” — John Lewis, US congressman

From a blurb on Danny's book:

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
by DANNY LYON
https://twinpalms.com/books-artists/memories-of-the-southern-civil-rights-movement/
In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon packed a Nikon Reflex and an old Leica in an army bag and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Albany, Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Martin Luther King Jr. Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which already had a reputation as one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil rights.

This is Dann'y blog and on the blog he has two entries:
BERNIE SANDERS LEADS 1963 SIT-IN
Posted on January 30, 2016
https://dektol.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/bernie-sanders-leads-1963-sit-in/
where he identifies the two photographs he took of Berrnie that have been widely published

And a second blog that he did yesterday:
MORE BERNIE CIVIL RIGHTS PHOTOS FOUND!
Posted on February 11, 2016
https://dektol.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/more-bernie-civil-rights-photos-found/

The slander that Bernie was not a very early leader for African American civil rights got so outrageous that persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions on Danny Lyon’s 1962 photos, claiming it was Bruce Rappaport standing in Bernie’s clothing leading the demonstration in the Ad Building. These newly discovered pictures, including close up photographs of the student activists show us exactly what Bernie was and what he remains.

He posts more photos of the sit-in and then says:

Here at the University of Chicago, in the winter of 1962, students led by Bernie Sanders and others have occupied the hallway of the Administration Building, spending the night inside. The Chancellor cannot get into or leave his office. Bernie is leading a protest against the discrimination practiced by the University of Chicago against African Americans in it’s extensive housing. This protest for equal rights for African Americans is the first sit-in to be held in the north as part of the great 1960’s civil rights movement. Bernie is the real deal. And voters, all voters know it. Feel the Bern.

I think Danny makes a pretty solid case given who he was: a civil rights photographer and John Lewis of all people attests to his work.

John Lewis would know Danny because:

Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

and John Lewis headed up the SNCC from 1963 to 1966.

[SamKnause]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so very much for posting this.

I just posted a piece, but yours is much more detailed.

Thank you !!!!

I am sick of the lies.

I am sick of the attacks on this great and humble man.

FEEL THE BERN

[Senator Tankerbell]

2. Does anyone have David Brock's email?

I would like to send him this.

[klook]

54. Contact Media Matters

Tips
Send news tips about conservative misinformation to Media Matters via
[e-mail]

The web site Brock founded, Media Matters, is supposed to expose conservative lies. Maybe Media Matters will perform its watchdog function and expose the lies perpetrated by Brock's other enterprise, "Correct" the Record.

[Cheviteau]

80. I Won't Wait

David Brock proved himself to be a liar years ago. Some on this site may believe he's redeemed himself. I'm not among them.

[mhatrw]

118. The depths of this little episode of ratfuckery are truly unfathomable.

Sally Cook, the retired government lawyer University of Chicago alumni who contacted the University of Chicago archives to get the caption of the photo changed, conceded to Time magazine reporter Sam Frizell that she could not "say for certain the man is not Sanders."

So what made it so important to her that she felt she needed to change the caption in order to identify the individual at a 40+-year-old sit in as some long dead acquaintance rather than as Bernie Sanders?

Who then told Sam Frizell, Time magazine's Clinton pool reporter, about this trifling photo flap? What induced Sam Frizell to devote 1000 words to this complete non-story without making any attempt to contact the original photographer?

What then induced the WaPo's Jonathan Capehart, the live in partner of a rich Clinton campaign staffer, to pick up this complete non-story and spin it into a direct attack of Sanders' integrity without making any attempt to contact the original photographer?

Why did corporate cable news then trot out Capehart on 10 different shows to promulgate this complete non-story?

[Unknown Beatle]

122. The answers are obvious.

Hillary represents the status quo and Bernie represents a political revolution. The lies and the smears against Sanders are just starting.

The monied elite, which Hillary considers herself to be a part of that tiny group, want to continue fleecing the 99%. Their gravy train will slow down if Bernie is elected president and they don't want anything to disrupt their runaway money train.

Fuck them!

Feel The Bern!

[Rilesome]

142. He is the only real democrat in it

[Unknown Beatle]

144. Right you are, Rilesome.

Welcome to DU.

[SammyWinstonJack]

146. That's right!

[rhett o rick]

123. It won't make a bit of difference. He is using the tactic of throwing shit and then running.

He accomplished his goal. His actions have a certain Rovian flare.

[Raster]

155. Yes.

[e-mail]

[cali]

3. Thank you so much!

[WiffenPoof]

104. Damn Cali...

Where did you get all the hearts???

[cali]

4. His case is more than solid. It's unimpeachable

And feel the Bern sure sounds like an endorsement.

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. I used to think a lot of John Lewis, but no more.

That was low. And unnecessary.

Hillary was no surprise. Anybody who would lie this much as the nominee, would have zero problem lying us into another war if needbe. That's obvious.

[cali]

9. John Lewis is and always will be an American hero

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. I define hero differently.

[m-lekktor]

22. as do I. nt

[erlewyne]

24. Cali,

your posts always seem to give me an opening for my thoughts.

What is that saying about every bad thing has something good?

Without John Lewis' badmouthing Bernie, I would not have gotten
some great "old" pictures of Bernie.

Those were great years for me because I was in high school
and did not realize how sleazy our great country was becoming.

I supported Goldwater back then because he was an underdog.

[earthside]

33. I'm not blaming Lewis.

But there is no doubt in my mind that the pressure from the Clintons to say and do anything to backup Hillary is enormous right now.

They have a reputation going back to Arkansas of being bullies and fierce threateners.

As long as the 'inevitability' argument for Hillary stays viable, there are going to be a lot of establishment Democratic officeholders who will succumb to the threats and say whatever they think will keep them in the Clintons' favor.

That's why knocking down the inevitability concept is so important.

I'm trying to remember a saying about the Clintons from 1992 (I'm not finding it by Googling yet) about how Clinton campaign wouldn't just respond to an attack with a counter punch, but would chop off the hand ... something like that.

[arikara]

112. Maybe it was in a book

the saying that is. I've heard similar about their scorched earth campaigns.

[JRLeft]

39. The brotha is a hero, Thank you his pass accomplishments are not diminished.

[zentrum]

68. It is hard to accept

….that along with endorsing HRC he dissed Bernie. Was that really necessary? Bernie is a progressive——what was the point?

Fine for him to back her—especially if in his calculations she'll be the winner and he doesn't want her as an enemy—I know how DC works and have heard of HRC's vindictiveness —but, did he also have to cast doubt on the integrity of Bernie's life story?

[HooptieWagon]

76. It was a coordinated attack.

John Lewis may not have known the whole plan, but he was given a script to read and did as he was told.

[JackInGreen]

74. See: The Dark Knight

"Die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain"
I agree John Lewis will always be a hero. I can forgive the sleight, but it will always call his words into question now.

[frylock]

86. And respect can be lost just as quickly as it's earned.

[jwirr]

88. And all he really said was that he had not met Bernie during

those years.

It was Brock and the Hillary campaign that gave it the spin that because John Lewis did not know him then that meant that Bernie was not in the movement.

For God's sake he did not know me either. A lot of us did not know each other.

[Cheviteau]

90. Maybe, Maybe Not

Go back a read the history of his first campaign for his congressional seat.

[klook]

57. John Lewis is a great man whose work stands for itself.

I am sorry that he's supporting the Clinton campaign this time around, and I'm sorry that he chose to cast doubt on Sanders's political history. This one moment does not destroy Lewis's long record of exemplary public service.

[Waiting For Everyman]

62. His record is his record, but his credibility is gone.

If he were a witness in a court case, for instance, I wouldn't believe him now.

He made a bad choice, and he should have known that it wasn't worth it. So good judgement's out the window too.

[SoapBox]

70. ^ I agree with this. ^

It seems to happen too often...a great history, doing great work...and then they get soiled over something like this.

And all in the name of trying to get her elected.

Too bad.

[m-lekktor]

99. exactly. nt

[lostnfound]

131. Please stop making this about John Lewis

It is not helpful. We have no idea what kind of pressure he is under, and what kind of memory he has. Be kind, and assume the best in people.

It's important to bring out the truth, and it's terrible that anyone would want to try to rob Bernie of a proud brave legacy.. But the man who was Bernie then, and the man who is Bernie still today, would never want to be part of tearing down a man like John Lewis.

[Waiting For Everyman]

153. Lewis damaged his own reputation by his own actions without any help from me.

There was NO NEED to say what he did about Sanders. None, whatsoever. HE went there. He could have endorsed HRC without deliberately trying to damage another candidate over a point that he knew was false. He attempted to smear the hard-earned, long-standing reputation of an innocent fellow civil rights worker merely to put his candidate a little more ahead.

What about fairness? Is that just a word to toss around? Appparently so.

I'll bet neither Lewis, nor HRC, expected that photographer to come forward. And what if the photograher had NOT come forward? What then? Would this be ok for this smear gambit of theirs to stand just because Lewis is an icon? And if so, then how is that any different from the idea of "too big to jail", meaning some people are exempt from the standards the rest of us are held to and expect?

Well, it isn't ok with me. I expect my icons and heroes to exceed the common standards, not to fail miserably at them.

People who would do this sort of thing, I ask myself what else would they stoop to? what else have they already done that we don't know about? It's game over for Lewis' reputation in my book. That's entirely his doing, it's not mine for saying so.

I appreciate your politeness in asking, but I won't be checking my opinions at the door for ANY candidate. This wasn't a little "oops", a little slip as far as ethics are concerned, this was a disaster, a very telling one.

[tk2kewl]

6. I can buy that John Lewis doesn't remember seeing Bernie

But one degree of separation - and a journalist covering the movement reporting on both Bernie and Rep Lewis...

Great post

[DefenseLawyer]

16. I have no issue with that, that Lewis never met Sanders

Although I think it was an unnecessary dig. It was the disingenuous "but I met Hillary" ( implying that unlike Bernie, by Lewis' implication, Hillary was somehow in the civil rights movement) that was classic Clintonian word games at their worst.

[tk2kewl]

28. I agree. It's makes me sad.

I've had that feeling of deep sadness and disappointment when some one I respect or love discounted my contribution or sincerity to something important to me. I wonder if Bernie feels wounded by these sorts of attacks on his work - attacks that try to discount what I believe is truly part of his soul. Does he take time to console himself over the pain it must cause or is that something that has to wait?

[renate]

151. well said

It makes me sad too, especially the unnecessity of it. Why would Lewis say something like that about a candidate who is almost certainly more deeply-in-his-bones on his side than the other one? Not that Hillary isn't fully in support of civil rights--but justice has been Bernie's raison-d'etre for his entire life.

[Jarqui]

32. In August, 1963, Hillary was 15 years old ...

She went on to be a Goldwater girl

She went on from there to be president of the Young Republicans at college and intern for Republicans in Washington.

It was a while (if truly ever) before she caught and embraced civil rights.

[dlwickham]

125. Late 60s

Late 60s-she supported Eugene McCarthy in 68; she and Bill campaigned for McGovern and 72

She was assigned a Republican congressman for her internship she didn't pick him

She also resigned from the young Republicans by her senior year

When did Sanders become a Democrat was it after 72

[Jarqui]

126. For this run. In the 70s he was with the small Liberty Union party in VT

But as mayor, congressman and senator, he's been an independent who caucused with the Democrats in Washington.

But these policies and positions he's talking about, he's had those since the 60s.

[dlwickham]

129. So does he still believe that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats

So does he still believe that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats because he's on record as saying that or has his opinion changed over the years?

[druidity33]

135. Why don't you ask him that? nt.

[dlwickham]

143. Why so defensive

Just wondering if he had changed his opinion after all these years

[Jarqui]

147. In terms of the money in politics? It's debatable how much difference there is

if we try to be objective about it.

In terms of other areas, he's slammed the Republicans on climate change for example and not the Dems to the same degree. He's complimented Obama on far more things than he's been critical of. Haven't seen many compliments for Republicans. He's touted Hillary as a hundred times better than any Republican candidate.

I'd say he sees plenty of differences.

A number of years ago, maybe after they signed the welfare bill, maybe not so many differences back then and he spoke emotionally to claim no difference as a figure of speech rather than literally. Maybe it was at the municipal level when both parties ganged up on him. I haven't seen the context so I'm not sure.

[Carolina]

136. He's more of a true Democrat

than she is... with her DLC, repuke-lite history. He's FDR, she's Nixon... deceit and dirty tricks, anything to win

[in_cog_ni_to]

51. I love and admire Congressman Lewis. He deserves his iconic status. If not him, who?

Though he did, deliberately, insinuate Bernie wasn't who he says he is. That was uncalled for and unnecessary. He could have just endorsed HRH and left it at that, but he didn't do that. He made the decision to get down in the David Brock muck. He was wrong.

I still admire him and always will. It's just unfortunate he's supporting someone like Clinton and flung her shit for her.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[m-lekktor]

25. that wasn't the point, it was the passive aggressive implication that he planted. nt

[tk2kewl]

31. I know... See my reply to DefenseLawer ^

[m-lekktor]

101. I will look! nt

[SixString]

7. DU Rec.

[Senator Tankerbell]

8. Jonathan Capehart is sticking with his story.

Even though he has now been proven wrong.
https://twitter.com/CapehartJ

We need to let his editor know about this and ask if there will be a retraction:
https://twitter.com/hiattf

[dragonfly301]

19. Capehart's ultimate boss is Bezos

who doesn't care if the washpo is inaccurate as long as Hillary wins. I have been a subscriber for 31 years, today I canceled my subscription. Enough.

[Senator Tankerbell]

23. That's good. Make sure you let them know why you canceled.

[Merryland]

59. The Washington Post

has become nothing but a right-wing shilling operation since it's pro-Iraq War days. Ugh.

[appalachiablue]

150. Good for you, and tell the Bezos Billionaire Gazette why.

[retrowire]

40. what a piece of shit. nt

[intheflow]

10. What's Sanders reading in that last photo?

This librarian wants to know!

[thereismore]

26. Me too! nt

[Doctor_J]

48. The Communist Manifesto!

Since the "bernie lied about being an activist" lie failed, the hillarians will probably go back to red-baiting.

[panader0]

49. That's A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud

I still have my copy.

[intheflow]

85. Must be worth the read, then.

I'll have to check it out!

[starroute]

50. I think this is it

I saved, cropped, rotated, sharpened -- and did a Google reverse image search on the result. Came up with this.

[intheflow]

83. You are brilliant!

Why didn't I think of that??

[demwing]

63. Dont think that last photo is of Bernie

different clothes, different hair, no pudgy cheeks

[intheflow]

84. Maybe it was a book about complete makeovers.

[demwing]

87. Beauty Tips by Arthur Rimbaud?

Naahh..

[jwirr]

97. The photos came from the photographer.

[demwing]

107. I realize that, doesn't mean they're all of Bernie

Bernie:


Not the Bernie:


Check the name of the 1st photo: "berniefr22-copy.jpg"

Check the name of the 2nd photo: "studentatsitin010.jpg"

[Armstead]

100. Yeah when did Bernie ever have dark hair?

[FourScore]

119. The last photo is not Bernie. I thought at first it was Rappaport,

but the photographer says on his blog that it is just another protester. I'm not sure why he posted it unless it was to show that numerous students had the same "look" with the hair and glasses.

[Donkees]

11. YOOJ R&K!!!

[AtomicKitten]

12. k/r

[nenagh]

14. K&R

[jalan48]

15. So if the Clinton camp Swift boats Bernie and then she wins the primary we are just supposed

to kiss and make up? Really?

[greymouse]

20. No.

I used to vote for the lessor of two evils. Then I realized that guaranteed the choice available would always be between evils.

There are a lot of reasons I don't like Hillary, but lying about her opponent by herself and her surrogates, how anti-Democratic can one get. Dare I use the phrase anti-American? which has been misused so often, but what else would one call corrupting the electoral process.

[JTFrog]

29. "Dare I use the phrase anti-American?"

Only if you want to sound ridiculous.

[demwing]

66. You're right - Lying is as American as Apple Pie

Last edited Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:36 PM - Edit history (1)

You should be ashamed - no sarcasm tag on that...

[JTFrog]

67. Nope.

If anyone should be ashamed it's the people running around with their hair on fire attacking a Democratic candidate in such hyperbolic fashion that it's embarrassing to DU. I have zero respect for people who fully embrace right wing positions to attack Hillary.

That poster proved one point in his post correct however: Dare I use the phrase anti-American? which has been misused so often. And now it has again. Anyone trying to claim Hilary is anti-American is on the wrong fucking website.

[demwing]

72. You're seriously confused

It's Team Hillary that is spreading malicious lies and corrupting the democratic process.

Fucking own it, at least. Have the courage of your misguided convictions.

[JTFrog]

106. I am neither confused nor misguided.

And I'll say it again. Anyone trying to claim Hilary is anti-American is on the wrong fucking website.

[demwing]

109. Perhaps we have different definition of "American"

Yours appears to includes lying to get elected. Mine does not.

[SammyWinstonJack]

149. +1000000

[JoeyT]

117. And I have zero respect for anyone that cuddles up to Kissinger.

Ask all those poor Cambodian kids Hillary's buddy carpet bombed about running around with their hair on fire.

[Carolina]

137. Her behavior is Nixonian

and I won't vote for her in the general

[Rilesome]

145. Might be the most write ins in history if that's the case

[myrna minx]

17. David Brock swift boat FAIL.

I have no issues with Congressman Lewis' recollections of whether he ever met Sanders or not. It's very probable that he never did meet Sanders.

My problem is the Brock Machine is ready to pounce on any untrue smear to besmirch an honorable man's reputation and passionate work.

What Brock did to Anita Hill was disgusting, and while he claims to atone for such horrible tactics, it appears that he's still at it- he's just going after Sanders now.

[Bonobo]

18. You nailed it. +1 nt

[Jarqui]

35. Bought and paid for by that Wall Street / corporate money Hillary

wants voters to ignore

[WillyT]

21. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[hwmnbn]

27. K&R

[thereismore]

30. Bernie is the real deal. First sit-in in the North. Get that? So what if he wasn't in the South?

He did great work in the North.

[Baitball Blogger]

34. Looks like their swift boat attempt sprung a leak.

[cali]

37. Not unless Capehart, WaPo, Time, Matthews, MSNBC and others retract

[zentrum]

36. The disputed

….photo looks like Bernie and this photo settles it.

Wish the powers that oppose him weren't so slithery.

[Jarqui]

42. Five of those photos in his second post

https://dektol.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/more-bernie-civil-rights-photos-found/


have him wearing a sweater/top and pants that look the same in the disputed photo.


The different shades are development or lighting

... a little more evidence ...

[gregcrawford]

71. The boatneck sweater in these photos is the same. Bezos and his crew are liars devoid of honor.

I am disgusted beyond words that Hillary's campaign would stoop so low as to hire a former Republican operative. I am suspicious, too, of Brock's claims that he has seen the light and repented of his evil ways, such as his malicious Anita Hill takedown. Conservatives are liars by nature, otherwise they wouldn't BE conservatives. Given the venomous hatred of Hillary by the vast Right-wing Conspiracy – and there can be NO doubt that there is one – it is no big stretch to imagine that Brock might be a particularly devious Trojan Horse inserted into the Clinton campaign to take her down once and for all.

I'm a Bernie supporter through and through, but I'd still like to believe that Hillary might have a tattered remnant of decency left, and that she's been had by some truly vile people.

Just call me Pollyanna.

[zentrum]

91. I share your anger

….at Brock.

But I doubt he's a trojan horse. I think his background proves to her he's just the kind of slimy do-anything operative she needs. His ideology is of no consequence to her. I think she'd take Rove as an advisor if he offered himself. She's machiavellian. Which is why I think she's a bad feminist as well. She stands for only one thing—the power and legacy of herself.

[gregcrawford]

105. Sigh...

... you're probably right. It's just that if all those things are true, then the Democratic Party has been hijacked in a most despicable way by people so rotten that they would aspire to ascend to the level of "despicable." And when you pull on that thread, it unravels a really ugly sweater to expose a virulent cancer at the very heart of our political system: Rapacious corporatism in all its malignant glory. But far worse than that is the fact that so many of the people we admired have eagerly guzzled that Kool Aid. And a horrifying number of our friends here on DU still think the Sun shines out of their nether portals. Bummer...

Did you happen to see that video post a couple of weeks ago featuring a Goldman Sachs trader being interviewed on British TV? That evil little bastard didn't even try to mask the malice that drives that organization, and they are far from alone in their quest for total world domination.

On that cheerful note, I bid you adieu and wish you a happy Valentine's Day.

[Rilgin]

108. Worse then Rove -- She has embraced Kissinger and taken advice from him. (NT)

[Carolina]

138. Don't forget

that back in the 1990s, she hired that toe sucker Dick Morris, too. Her conduct this time around is 2008 redux with more shock and awe (see my OP in this forum: Challenging history, authenticity and facts).

HRC's campaign is positively Nixonian. Maybe her emails and speech transcripts will sink her like the Nicon tapes did him.

[zazen]

154. agreed--Trump v Clinton would be Mussolini v Nixon

An awful choice. I'm going to have a hard time voting for her if she wins the general. It sickens me.

[Odin2005]

96. You can tell it's Bernie by the posture

[ucrdem]

44. There are two students in the new photo and the student on the left looks more like

the student in the disputed pic who has been identified as Bruce Rappaport by the Washington Post and others. Yesterday:

Stop sending around this photo of ‘Bernie Sanders’
By Jonathan Capehart February 11 at 5:38 PM



https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/11/stop-sending-around-this-photo-of-bernie-sanders/

So I'm not sure this new photo settles anything.

[Beowulf]

56. Just looking at the photos

I can see the confusion, but when the guy who took the photo says it's Bernie, and that guy has impeccable bona fides as a photographer of the civil rights movement, I think I'll go with the guy who was there and took the photo over the hacks at the Washington Post and Time.

[Amaril]

82. Guy on the left in the new picture is not the same guy.......

....that is in the others. He is wearing white socks. Guy in the other 4 is wearing black socks (look at the top left photo -- the one that is turned sideways).

[mhatrw]

113. Is there nothing you won't stoop to? It's Sanders.

Who "identified" him as Bruce Rappaport? How did they "identify him as Bruce Rappaport" when the photographer himself says he is Bernie Sanders?

[abelenkpe]

55. They have a reason to oppose Bernie

They are worried they'll have to pay more in taxes.

[Helen Borg]

38. They are sooooo scared!!!

[bigwillq]

41. K and R (nt)

[Respect 88]

43. Thank you! Proof once again overrides establishment

The grandstanding of the establishment against Bernie's life long activism was an outrage! What a breath of fresh air to see this post of pics. BTW - Bernie was arrested during this sit-in.

[Jarqui]

45. No he wasn't arrested from this

This sit in was about segregation and discrimination in student living quarters that prohibited blacks living with whites (something like that)

I think it helped lead to the dean asking him to take time off school

Sanders was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago in 1962. (a different cause and protest related to civil rights)

[Respect 88]

61. Race Protest - Bernie arrested 1962

Jarqui, Thank you for having the proof of this!

[demwing]

69. The Assistant State's Attorney said Bernie helped lead the protest

Miss Willie Whiting, assistant state's attorney, told the court that the four (William Devine, John Harkins, John Anderson, Bernard Sanders) were in positions of leadership and engineered the demonstration.

Why is there any controversy over this?

How can anyone spread such an easily refutable, malicious lie, and in the face of that shame, still expect the vote of any honorable Democrat?

[Jarqui]

89. Or make the case that his actions didn't pose a risk

In this case, it got him arrested. In another case, it had the cops tailing him and taking his flyers on police brutality down right after he was putting them up. It had the dean of his school asking him to take a year off.

If you attended one of these demonstrations, like the March on Washington in 1963 that Sanders did, you risked tear gas, night sticks, arrest or worse.

Aug. 28, 1963 Military police line up at the Washington Monument prior to the March on Washington. Fearing violence from the event, 30 Army helicopters patrolled the skies, swooping low over the Reflecting Pool. Four thousand troops stood ready in the Washington suburbs, and 15,000 paratroopers were placed on standby in North Carolina.

John Lewis was told he had to tone his March on Washington speech down because it was too militant. They feared he'd spark a riot.

Despite the event being organized to be a nonviolent protest, authorities had set up crowd control measures out of fear of a riot breaking out. Military police lined the National Mall and dozens of Army helicopters patrolled the skies over the march. Nearly 6,000 police officers were on duty, as well as 2,000 men from the National Guard. Four thousand soldiers stood at the ready in the D.C. suburbs alone, and 15,000 paratroopers were on standby. The march took place without major incident, however.

Partly due to mistrust and partly due to risk in business or socially, there were not a lot of whites really standing up for blacks in 1962-3. The movement was growing but not there yet. So supporting them got you labeled things like "nigger-lover". About 1/4 of the people in the March on Washington were white. But I bet the vast majority didn't go to work the next day bragging about being at the demonstration. There were still a lot of prejudice people having trouble accepting it.

Actions have consequences. If you protest darn near anything, you're taking some sort of risk - particularly in the early 60s. To suggest Bernie didn't take risks is inaccurate and unfair. John Lewis and MLK took much bigger risks. It got MLK killed and for example, John Lewis was beaten by mobs as a Freedom Rider and in a protest for voting rights at Selma, the cops attacked them and fractured Lewis's skull here:

So to maintain perspective, Bernie actions were not as risky as the ones John Lewis took but he did take some risks standing up for the same cause.

[NorthCarolina]

46. John Lewis isn't in any of his photos?

I wonder if Bernie recalls him being there.

[jwirr]

98. Bernie has never claimed this.

[Bluenorthwest]

157. At this link is a lovely photo of John Lewis from 1963, by Danny Lyon who took the Bernie photos

This link it to the Museum of Contemporary Photography

John Lewis in Cairo

Accession Number:
2012:127
Artist:
Lyon, Danny
Date:
1963; printed 2010
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=browse&f=maker&s=Lyon%2C+Danny&record=81

[Doctor_J]

47. Another mud-toss from Team Clinton that will backfire

She REALLY needs to muzzle these people.

[libdem4life]

52. Just wow...going into the archive and changing????

[in_cog_ni_to]

53. THANK YOU! Is it CLEAR NOW? Bernie IS NOT a liar, like someone else we know.

Great post!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[ALBliberal]

58. Maybe we should say thanks to HRC/Brock. Bernie is not the boastful type and

therefore doesn't talk about this as much as he could. But NOW he will be getting all sorts of publicity on his civil rights bona fides all before the SC primary.

[EndElectoral]

60. We need to know the people who changed the names on that photograph and why

[mainer]

64. Changing the archive is a whole other level of evil.

I didn't really care about the photo dispute until now. It was so minor as to be irrelevant.

But this -- THIS -- is like a window into the soul of Hillary supporters. That they would dare change an archive means they have no interest in the truth.

[HooptieWagon]

81. Virtually SS like.

[erlewyne]

94. Censors and trolls are all around us.

I often use Wikipedia (online) and am dismayed at
how prevalent misinformation is. It is kind of
like our votes via computer verses paper ballots,
it is all about a rigged system and people with
deep pockets.

[LiberalArkie]

65. There is one thing that has to be remembered. Hillary is an establishment candidate, with

establishment contacts. What does this mean? It means access to old phone conversations, emails etc of probably everyone in congress and most people in government.

We have to take what they say with a grain of salt. There might be an old picture out there from 50 years ago of John Lewis giving a woman an innocent peck on the cheek. We wonder why congress never changes, the data keepers never change.

[INdemo]

73. We know that Teeety reads DU but could you forward this

To him?

[nyabingi]

75. I went off on John Lewis yesterday

in a now-hidden post because it angered me that he is now too blind to see that he is being used by a cold, calculating, cutthroat Clinton campaign (alliteration intended lol) to whip potential Black voters in line behind her candidacy, that Hillary takes donations from many of the interests who are literally profiting off of the Black community's misery, that after having solidified himself as a hero he is now vouching for someone who was on the side of the enemy back then, etc.

Many of the civil rights leaders of yesterday are still trying to stay in the fight, but they need to realize that their time to lead should be ceded to the young who are more in touch with the pulse of their young peers. People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have had difficulty maintaining their "leader" status in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, but instead of trying to be the face of leadership of this younger groups and trying to diminish their activism, they should seek to join with them and lend their voices to the youth. John Lewis, through his vocal support of Hillary Clinton, has shown me that he's lost touch with the pulse not only of our youth, but with the ebb and flow of this country's political dynamic and mood.

I don't apologize for what I said about John Lewis because I truly feel he earned those words.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

77. I hope they are sending the photos to the press

nt

And where are the pictures of Hillary?

[awake]

102. Walmart board meeting did not allow photos

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

111. LOL

[quoddy woman]

78. Lewis

Has dragged his reputation through the same slime as Colin Powell. If you look at the young man's hands,there can be no question. He has the longest thumbs I ever saw.

[demwing]

103. Yes the hands...

Not only has Bernie been saying the same thing for years, he's been waving his hands around in the same way for years!

[creatives4innovation]

116. Excellent forensics

[Duval]

79. Now there is no doubt! Isn't social media wonderful?

Thank you Jarqui!

[Arugula Latte]

128. Yep! And a big Fuck You Once Again to the Corrupt Corporate Clinton Mainstream Media.

[liberal_at_heart]

92. K&R. Hell Yeah!

[Tiggeroshii]

93. They gonna try to swiftboat the crap out of him on this. We must be ready.

[monicaangela]

95. I find it amazing..

the fact that some people would first believe that John Lewis would remember every member of SNCC number 1. And, that those same people would believe an article that takes the time to look back into history to try to deny a person who is in a photo, several photos to be exact, somehow isn't there or is trying to use the photo of someone else to prove he/she was a part of the Civil Rights movement in the 60's. Thank you for putting this matter to rest Jarqui, we who are supporters of Sanders are grateful for what you have done.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

110. "...persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions..."

Someone needs to go to JAIL for that.

[FourScore]

120. It had to have been done electronically, which may have produced a timestamp.

They may even have a record of what was written there before, if anything. The university need to clarify.

[AzDar]

114. The Clintons seem to sully much of what/whom they come into contact with...

[Ferd Berfel]

115. K&R

[cui bono]

124. k and fuckin' r

[Arugula Latte]

127. Once again the Clintons are wallowing in the slimey gutter.

Jesus Christ. How low can they go?

[noretreatnosurrender]

130. Dirty Tricks?

The slander that Bernie was not a very early leader for African American civil rights got so outrageous that persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions on Danny Lyon’s 1962 photos, claiming it was Bruce Rappaport standing in Bernie’s clothing leading the demonstration in the Ad Building. These newly discovered pictures, including close up photographs of the student activists show us exactly what Bernie was and what he remains.

This reminds me of the dirty tricks perpetrated by the Nixon campaign.

[Jarqui]

132. Hillary's lying/deceptions reminds me of Nixon more than any

other candidate for president.

Both have/had brains. Both have/had experience and good roles in government. But both are/were kind of detached - less human as they lack warmth. And both lied their heads off.

Like Nixon, she'll lie about fairly petty stuff.

Having lived through Tricky Dick, I do not trust her at all. No way. Look at how many sleazy deceptions or lies we're been confronted with in this campaign? I seem to run into something every day now.

There's a darn good reason why 60% of Americans don't trust her. America found out the hard way with Nixon. Hopefully, we can avoid that this time around.

[Carolina]

139. Ditto

I called her Nixonian up thread and I remember that fucker, too.

There is no way I can vote for her ever, for anything. Certainly not POTUS

[Enthusiast]

133. Kicked and recommended!

[MisterP]

134. they really ARE out of ideas--what's next? kindergarten essays?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/2/417097/

[anAustralianobserver]

140. David Brock digs up a new Bernie Sanders photograph!

[Uncle Joe]

141. Just before he went to Dallas no doubt.

[Jarqui]

148. Lee Harvey Sanders?