Who are all the people in this photo of the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964?

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I'm not good with facial recognition, so this is a bit of a guess and a few are quite possibly dead wrong. But I think, counting non-obscured faces from left to right, those present in this photo are:

Credit goes to Tyler Durden on identifying Jacob Javits.

There were actually a lot of people at the ceremony - Johnson handed out 72 or so pens as commemorative gifts.

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Congressman Peter Rodino (D-NJ) is directly behind Johnson. He has a red lapel pin on.

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I know 3 of them (not including Kennedy that you have already identified):

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TK is Senator Thomas Kuchel.

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