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Image of a Kennedy-Johnson campaign motorcade in Arlington, Texas in 1960
Image of a Kennedy-Johnson campaign motorcade in Arlington, Texas in 1960

Image of a Kennedy-Johnson campaign motorcade in Arlington, Texas in 1960

Object number2014.080.0039.0002
Date09/13/1960
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Donald C. Grant
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineThe Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Donated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
MediumFilm
Dimensions2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
DescriptionOriginal 120 mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Morning News staff photographer Clint Grant. Senator John F. Kennedy and running mate Senator Lyndon B. Johnson ride on the back of a convertible through Arlington, Texas, during a presidential campaign visit on September 13, 1960. Judge Sarah T. Hughes sits between them, and Barefoot Sanders sits in the passenger seat. This image was taken after Senator Kennedy gave a speech at Burnett Park in Fort Worth, Texas.
Curatorial Commentary
The day before his 1960 Dallas/Fort Worth visit, Senator Kennedy made a major address to Greater Houston Ministerial Association at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas (the same hotel he would again visit on November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination). In his televised address on September 12, 1960, Kennedy directly confronted the "religious issue," pointed accusations that he would allow his Catholic faith to influence the execution of his responsibilities as president. His bold confrontation of this question made this one of the most important speeches of the 1960 campaign. He visited DFW the following day. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Judge Sarah T. Hughes (1896-1985), partially visible in this photograph seated between Johnson and Kennedy, would famously swear in Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One as the thirty-sixth president of the United States, following the assassination on November 22, 1963. To this day, she remains the only woman to swear in a United States president. - Stephen Fagin,  Curator