Assails Supreme Court Decision: Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge, conducting a news conference on the lawn of the executive mansion in Atlanta, assails the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on segregation as "low politics." Governor Talmadge said, "the court has blatantly ignored all law and precedents and usurped from the Congress the authority to make the laws of the land."

On recto: typewritten title and date.

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:

• Atlanta
• Civil Rights Movements
• Georgia executive mansion
• Herman Talmadge
• Injustice
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregationists
• United States Supreme Court

• Image Dimensions: 9 x 6 1/2 in. (22.86 x 16.51 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 6 11/16 in. (23.18 x 16.99 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen