General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Photographs of Agency Officials and Activities

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General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Photographs of Agency Officials and Activities

1979-1981

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/597291

This series consists of photographs relating to Department of Justice meetings, ceremonies, press conferences, and investigations. The series also contains bust portraits and group portraits of agency personnel and of U.S. Presidents. Among the personalities of interest in this series are Attorneys General, Francis Biddle (60-G-1-1), Herbert Brownell Jr. (60-G-2-1 through 60-G-2-2), William P. Rogers (60-G-3-1 through 60-G-3-27), Robert F. Kennedy (60-G-4-1 through 60-G-4-4), Ramsey Clark (60-G-5-1 through 60-G-5-8), John N. Mitchell (60-G-6-1 through 60-G-6-4), Richard G. Kleindienst (60-G-7-1 through 60-G-7-29), Elliot L. Richardson (60-G-8-1 through 60-G-11-22), William B. Saxbe (60-G-12-1 through 60-G-14-27), Edward H. Levi (60-G-15-1 through 60-G-17-23), Griffin B. Bell (60-G-18-1 through 60-G-22-39-2), and Benjamin R. Civiletti (60-G-23-1 through 60-G-24-6-12); and U.S. Presidents Richard M. Nixon (60-G-230-1) and Gerald R. Ford (60-G-231-1). There are also photographs recording the swearing-in of former Attorney General Tom C. Clark as a Supreme Court Associate Justice in 1949. Pictured at the ceremony are the President Harry S. Truman, Vice-President Alben W. Barkley, and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (60-G-212-1 through 60-G-212-14). Other photographs of interest in this series include Patty Hearst being escorted into court by U.S. Marshals in 1976 (60-G-142-1 through 60-G-142-3); Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. Marshals into William Frantz Public School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960 (60-G-154-1); a sketch of Lynette Fromme in 1975 (60-G-155B-1); a group portrait of White House Fellows in 1972, which included Colin L. Powell (60-G-194-1); and a group portrait of Department of Justice employees in 1928 (60-G-182-1). There are also photographs of Operation Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, including views of U.S. Marshal's bunkers, Army armed personnel carriers, and U.S. Marshal Director Wayne B. Coburn (60-G-150-1 through 60-G-150-30).

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