SALZBURG JUNE 2, 1945
AUDIE MURPHY MEDAL CEREMONY
A delegation of the U.S. Congress led by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson (fifth from left) witnessed the medal ceremony for Audie Murphy and stood in review of 3rd Division troops in Salzburg, Austria on June 2, 1945.
The senators in attendance included:
Harry Byrd - Virginia (avowed white separatist and avid supporter of segregation; a southern Democrat who opposed Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy; his northern Virginia apple business inspired Edward R. Murrow's television documentary
"Harvest of Shame" on the issue of migrant worker conditions)
Richard Russell - Georgia (supported racial segregation and co-authored the Southern Manifesto with Strom Thurmond; he and 17 fellow Democratic and one Republican senator blocked the passage of civil rights legislation with a filibuster; after
Lyndon Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Russell led a southern boycott of the 1964 Democratic National Convention)
Chan Gurney - South Dakota (third from right - the first chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Gurney was an early developer of gasohol)
Clyde Reed - Kansas (far left - a former Republican governor, Reed was recruited to thwart a senate run by anti-Semitic preacher Gerald B. Winrod in 1938, he won the election and and was re-elected in 1944)
Thomas Stewart - Tennessee (Stewart was the chief prosecutor in the Scopes Trial in 1925, Stewart was a pro-Roosevelt southern Democrat and in 1942 he introduced a bill in the Senate to revoke citizenship from all American-born persons of Japanese ancestry, he was defeated in 1948 by Estes Kefauver)
Burnett Maybank - South Carolina (second from right - as a Democratic governor, he opposed the Ku Klux Klan, and expanded economic opportunities for African-Americans and attempted to improve the quality of African-American schools in the state, however, he was not able to alter the disfranchisement of African-Americans due to provisions in the state constitution and electoral laws)
James Eastland - Mississippi (a southern Democrat called the "Voice of the White South", Eastland was known as the symbol of southern resistance to racial integration during the civil rights era and referred to African-Americans as an inferior race)
John McClellan - Arkansas (McClellan was a southern Democrat and as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations from 1955–73, pursued anti-subversion and anti-corruption investigations including those into Julius Rosenberg, Jimmy Hoffa and Joseph Valachi; as a participant in the Army-McCarthy hearings, he led a Democratic walkout in protest of McCarthy's conduct; in 1956, he was one of 82 representatives and 19 senators who signed the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education and racial integration).
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