“…he was dressed in a three-piece suit and he had a briefcase.”
WWBT in Richmond spoke to Ralph Northam’s medical school roommate about the Halloween party in 1984 where Northam, or someone, dressed in blackface. According to Rob Marsh, a military doctor whose actions were portrayed in the book Black Hawk Down, Northam dressed up as an attorney in a three-piece suit for that party.
Marsh says he first found out about the photo on Friday – with everyone else in the country.
“I was at the Halloween party the governor went to and I know what he was wearing exactly,” Marsh explained.
Marsh said Northam’s costume was supposed to be that of an attorney.
“Ralph comes out and I remember he was dressed in a three-piece suit and he had a briefcase,” Marsh confirmed.
Marsh says he’s sure the person in the photo isn’t Northam but claims he doesn’t know who it is and seemingly doesn’t recall anyone wearing that outfit or the KKK costume to the party. Marsh has remained friends with Northam and has been in touch with him since the photo was published last Friday.
So you could say this is an old friend backing up his buddy after talking to him, but I’d be hesitant to call Rob Marsh a liar after reading a bit about him. So does this mean Northam really isn’t the guy in blackface? On that point, another photo from the medical school yearbook began to circulate online over the weekend. It shows Ralph Northam and a few other guys who were part of some group at the school. And it looks like one of the guys, who is clearly not Ralph Northam, was wearing the same plaid pants seen in the blackface photo:
Unless guys in 1984 shared pants, the one in blackface in #Northam picture is NOT @GovernorVA — which means @RalphNortham is for sure in Klan hood. Guy in plaid pants in both pictures is NOT Northam. Both pics look from Med School Yearbook. pic.twitter.com/0m6EdHdbAt
— Hill????Buzz (@HillBuzz) February 3,2019
Those do look like the same pants but Northam is the guy on the left in the plaid shirt, not the one in the plaid pants:
Smoking Gun? – Northam College Photo Shows Man in Same Plaid Pants as the Blackface-KKK Yearbook Photo https://t.co/gBCwj4Yd9u pic.twitter.com/DNUI1wqm5h
— CafeNetAmerica (@cafenetamerica) February 3,2019
So does that prove Northam is not the guy in blackface? I’ve seen some people online saying the pants aren’t identical and others saying the guy wearing the pants in both photos is Northam, so not everyone agrees about what this shows.
