Challenges Federal Authority: Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama has had a record of defying federal authorities since he was a politically-obscure state court judge six years ago. He is still challenging the federal government for what he calls a denial of states' rights. Governor Wallace has questioned President Kennedy's right to use federal troops if further violence breaks out in racially-troubled Birmingham.

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

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:

• Alabama
• Birmingham
• Civil Rights Movements
• George Wallace
• Injustice
• John Kennedy
• Male Portraits
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregationists

• Image Dimensions: 9 3/8 x 6 in. (23.81 x 15.24 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 8 1/16 in. (23.97 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin