Want to see an ironic historical photo?????

[ShaneGR]

I may not have a gun right now, but I'll stab you with this pen.

Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, & Charlton Heston

March on Washington 1963

[Lars39]

1. What was the occasion?

[WilliamPitt]

2. March on Washington 1963

[Dookus]

3. It was the 1963

March on Washington.

Despite Heston's later transgressions, he was an early advocate of the Civil Rights movement.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Is that Clarence Thomas with the evil eye behind that woman?

LOL!

[0rganism]

5. It is kind of sad, eh?

Heston may be an NRA frontman now, but in his prime he was very much a liberal civil-rights activist. He puts in a plug for the antiwar counterculture in the "Planet of the Apes" movies -- "don't trust anyone over 30".

His descent into 2nd ammendment demagoguery has been tragic, but I'm sure he had his reasons. It fits with his inclination to activism, at least.

Seeing how far he'd slipped in "Bowling for Columbine", well, it was heartbreaking. He looked so lost and broken, the Alzheimer's disease finally robbing him of whatever coherence he had during the NRA days.