First heard about this on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews…...last night
according to Jonathan Capehart, the Bernie Sanders campaign is lying about a picture being passed around as proof that he was at a Civil Rights gathering in the sixties.
In trying to establish the civil rights bona fides of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),many of his supporters have taken to posting a black-and-white photo of the presidential candidate from 1962. Students can been sitting on the floor and standing in the back as the then-dark-haired activist addresses them…….
But that’s not Bernie Sanders in the photo. It is Bruce Rappaport.
Classmates of the two men started raising concerns about the discrepancy last year. According to Time, four University of Chicago alumni told the magazine in November that they believed the man to be Rappaport, also a student activist, who died in 2006. At the time of the story, the photo was still captioned as Bernie Sanders in the University of Chicago’s photo archive. But the picture’s caption has since been changed.
www.washingtonpost.com/…
Just wanted to correct the record
WOW!!
apparently the other popular photo(the one with MLK) Sanders supporters have been sharing to besmirch the character of John Lewis is also not Bernie Sanders….. www.dailykos.com/...