Bernie Sanders’ Classmates Say Man in Civil Rights Sit-In Photo Isn’t Him
Source: Mediaite
Another presidential candidate might soon come under increased media scrutiny for potentially giving incorrect information about his past. Former classmates of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are now speaking out about an iconic civil rights-era photo that shows a man talking to his peers at a sit-in protest.
Sanders and his campaign have contended that the man standing up with a book in his right hand is the Democratic presidential candidate, and the University of Chicago archives still label it as such. But four of his former classmates told TIME Magazine that Sanders does not actually appear in the photo.
Additionally, TIME reported, an archivist at the university came to the same conclusion earlier this year, but has thus far been unable to identify the man. For that reason, Sanders is still listed in the description. The classmates with whom TIME spoke believe the man addressing protesters in the photo is Bruce Rappaport, who passed away in 2006.
“I can certainly recognize it as Bruce Rappaport, partly because of the curvature of his spine, and I see that tall thin look from the side,” a former University of Chicago student told TIME. “When I saw it, I said, ‘That’s Bruce Rappaport.'”
Another former classmate who was Rappaport’s roommate and the best man at his wedding corroborated that account.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-classmates-say-man-in-civil-rights-sit-in-photo-isnt-him/
hey, nobody's perfect.
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not that the person standing is Bernie, but that Bernie did address the students but perhaps no picture was taken at that moment.
DISCLAIMER: I'm currently a Bernie supporter, but I will vote for Hillary if and when the time comes. 
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since John Ellis doesn't seem to be using him. 
What did Poppy say? Something to the effect that Bill is like a son to him?
rove is pukeliCON all the way, through and through. I wonder if he has any real allegiance to any one person. rove at large 
We already knew that he owned one pair of underwear. Did he only own one sweater too? 
Top right corner... See them?
Ok maybe not... but dang it sure almost looks like them.
"Kaufman reported in the student newspaper that the protesters at the sit-in played bridge and ate salami and cheese sandwiches. One guy read aloud from Winnie-the-Pooh. Several wore neckties.
One of the leaders of the sit-in was a young Bernard Sanders, shown in one photo sporting a wide-necked dark sweater and horn-rimmed glasses, clutching a book in one hand and gesturing with the other as he speaks to the protesters.
"He was a great speaker," Kaufman recalls, "and he was able to convince a bunch of other 19-year-olds ... that what was going on was something that was wrong ... and we had the power and the obligation to try to create change."
Sanders has said the sit-in was the event that kick-started his political activism.
Not everyone remembers him as eloquent. Gavin MacFadyen says Sanders was no "electrifying speechmaker" but a soft-spoken, intelligent kid who was still figuring out how to lead.
"If you'd said, 'Is this guy going to run for president?' I think we all would have smiled," MacFadyen says."
http://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/political-education
Compromise was not yet to be. Backed by student government, CORE voted in a spirited mass meeting in the lounge of the New Dorm (later Woodward Court) to try a different tactic. The next day, at a noon rally at the rear steps of the Administration Building, Bernard Sanders, chairman of the social action committee of CORE, said, “We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the University cannot live together in university owned apartments.” Then some 33 people, most of them white students, strode into the building, took the elevator to the fifth floor, and reclined on the floor along the walls of the reception room adjoining Beadle’s office: a sit-in.
Sanders was leading them as "chairman of the social action committee of CORE" and they quote him above.
This photo identity thing seems like nonsense to me.
We're not to bring that up. 
It may be him or it may be another student who looked a lot like him and was also involved. Who can remember every detail from 50 years ago?
The time article has pictures of them both, and without seeing their faces I don't think I could say for sure which one it was. Which I think explains why the university made an error, if one was made.
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University of Chicago Photographic Archive labels this photo, “Bernie Sanders, a member of the steering committee, stands next to George Beadle, University of Chicago president, at a CORE meeting on housing sit-ins in 1962.”
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Bruce Rappaport at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s. Richard Schmitt
http://time.com/4108379/bernie-sanders-photo-civil-rights/
What matters is that Sanders was doing what he claims he was at that time, and he was. There's nothing much to this but some people digging to try and make hay over any little.
clearly by Bernie in the picture right before this picture comes up (at the 1:23 mark) is EXACTLY the same as the one worn at the picture in question (note the collar).
I guess they shared clothes. huh?
Welcome to my Forever Ignored Club.
?1433408728Prove it Skippy prove it . Oh and enjoy your 15 seconds of douchedumb .
these two people are not named ......well la de dah .
Would that the phrase, "hey, nobody's perfect" be consistently applied to the classmate as well would illustrate a much less biased, much more objective perspective.
But hey... "nobody's perfect..." 
