1978 Press Photo Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union

"I'm sort of a symbol because I've been around so long," said Roger Baldwin, photographed recently at his home in New York City. Now 94, Baldwin, officially designated the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, is living history. He helped bring about such events as the Scopes monkey trials, and his friends and acquaintances of a lifetime are names most people know only from books. New York - In the manner of founding fathers everywhere, Roger Baldwin's portrait hangs in the anteroom of the offices of the American Civil Liberties Union. But this founding father is more than a dusty water color to be revered and remembered. At 94, the man officially designated the ACLU's "founder" is in the office at least once a week. When he's not there his memos are - he types them himself in the study of his Greenwich Village townhouse - and more than one ACLU official has received a cranky phone call for failing to respond to one on time.

Photo is dated 1978.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8.25 inches.