Posted on 11/01/2024 6:29:45 AM PDT by bitt
The table was set. The pastries arranged. A white tablecloth dangled placidly in the early morning mist, surrounded by 12 golden-hued high-backed chairs.
Five decades ago, a dozen friends gathered here, on the National Mall, for breakfast. They wore morning coats and floor-length dresses, dined on oysters, drank champagne and danced together as a string quartet played in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial.
The extravagant scene on July 19, 1974, drew in a Washington Post photographer, who captured the moment in an image that would ricochet around the country in newspaper reprints.
But the people and circumstances at the center of that famous picture remained a mystery to those who admired it, bought it, hung it on their office walls. They didn’t know who those young people were or why they had gathered for such an ornate affair near the Reflecting Pool. They didn’t know that the specter of death had loomed over the rousing celebration or that the people at its center would go on to have a hand in many pivotal facets of American life - the civil rights movement, gender equity in schools, advocacy for blind and disabled people.
That is until Joyce Naltchayan Boghosian - the daughter of late Post photographer Harry Naltchayan, who captured the original image - met one of the participants a year ago and began to put the pieces together.
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Somehow I missed it.
And thus was the deep state born.
Even back then, DC had arrogant, pompous pricks.
That was absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
That’s a neat picture, and the story behind is it amazing.
Interesting story, but, if I told mine and detailed how “government” people created phenomenal hardship in my life because they hated my values and subsequent politics, you would understand every bit of my posts here. I don’t care one flip about those people who used their government “privilege” to pull off something for which the general public would have been denied or arrested.
Thanks bitt.
Same here.
Wash. DC Leftists emulating 18th Century French aristocracy. What else is new.
Indeed. But liberal writers are at their best when they write feature stories like this. This is really their wheelhouse.
Sorry for those who passed even if they were the enemy to our freedoms. Hard to make long friendships. The overly long was a bit too fanciful.
Gorgeous interesting original photo but the recreation was a dud. A great let down at the end.
“Even back then, DC had arrogant, pompous pricks.”
Never been a shortage of APP in DC. It’s just been one “hold my beer” episode after another.
I wasn’t invited, snubbed by the DC movers and shaker. sigh
Back when liberal politics was an adventure rather than a way to deprive citizens of the freedom of speech...
Back when the city newspaper didn’t target groups of citizens to hate, but reported news of value ...
Back before we realized the “new ‘investigative journalism” was nothing more than reporters being stenographers for angry left wing disgruntled FBI agents.
Back before the fall...
Why the Washington Post hates Trump and longs for the glory days of their past...
Democracy dies after dark...
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