Happy about Victory: sponsors of the jury trial amendment to the Civil Rights bill---Senators Frank Church, (D-ID), left; Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY), second from left; and Estes Kefauver (D-TN), right---get in victory handshakes with Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson (D-TX), center, and Richard Russell (D-GA), second from right, after the amendment passed by a vote of 51-42 in a late session last night. Adoption of the amendment was a major blow to President Eisenhower's administration-backed bill, Washington DC.

Variant illustrated: Associated Press ID #570801049

On recto: typewritten title and date. On verso: manuscript title, Associated Press stamp and date stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Civil Rights Movements
• Estes Kefauver
• Frank Church
• Group Portraits
• Injustice
• Joseph O'Mahoney
• Juries
• Lyndon Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Racial Discrimination
• Richard Russell
• Trials
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 6 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (16.83 x 23.5 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 7 1/4 x 10 in. (18.42 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin