I think you're right! Maybe this wasn't 1952 but 1953? He was SecState for Ike in '53...But, clearly, what do I know???My vote is John Foster Dulles.
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I think you're right! Maybe this wasn't 1952 but 1953? He was SecState for Ike in '53...But, clearly, what do I know???My vote is John Foster Dulles.
Yes sirMy vote is John Foster Dulles.
Yup! That’s gotta be him. Then secretary of stateMy vote is John Foster Dulles.
My grandfather took that picture. That was the only one I saw from that particular event.The gentleman in the three piece suit could be from one of the executive Departments such as Defense or State - an Ambassador was mentioned as a possibility above. He could be an Ambassador from an allied country - The UK for example...He could be the Armed Services Chairman from the House or the Senate. He could be a defense industry company president getting shown how his company's equipment did or did not work as the Army/USAF/Marines/Navy needed it to.
If that's an official photo, there may be others taken at the same event which could have accompanying documentation in the Library of Congress. You'd have to really bear down on the research to turn up a name for this guy. Or if your Google-fu is particularly strong, you might find a match in some other archive on the interwebs...Good luck! You'll need some...
Well this was 1952/53Unlikely to be 870. Production didn't start until 1950, and the Army had a stockpile of WWII shotguns.