[DiogenesLamp]

Yes, the older guy and woman with the backpack are almost certainly Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers was going to school across the street from Columbia (and Obama) in 1983.

Do you think there is the slightest chance that Barack Obama did not recognize the photo of those two staring back at him from the pages of his own essay? At first I didn't see the resemblance, but after looking at an old picture of them over at "zombietime" I realized that it does indeed resemble them. This picture.

[Dakkster]

I believe the 1st photo in 1983 ‘Breaking the War Mentality’ is of Phil Boerner, and the 2nd photo is of Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn. All three were likely very close to Obama in 1983 and earlier.