Hey, FBI - if you’re reading this - this photo is perfectly benign. Sorry if you got your hopes up!
Spoiler
Here’s a lovely Paralympic Christmas card from Peggy Tasker to Yvonne Hawtin! The photograph is of the two of them competing at the 1983 Coventry vs. Glasgow Games in Rifle Shooting.
https://bsky.app/profile/bucksarchives.bsky.social/post/3ldqgwusd7526
That’s actually Bernie Sanders
The reporter runs up and says to him “Senator Sanders - do you have a comment about your radical younger days?”
“I have always been a supporter of working peop—”
The reporter interrupts him. “Yeah, we know. You have always been a supporter of working people. But—”
“You are a rude young lady if I may use that term. And I may because I am entitled.”
“Explain this photo!” and she shoves it in front of his face.
“Those days were—” He seems he wants to continue and he suddenly looks very elderly and very fragile. But that only lasts a moment. He frowns at her, turns, and moves away at a very surprising clip for an old guy.
