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Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field
Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field

Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field

Object number2014.080.0676
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Dallas Morning News Photographer
ObjectPhotograph (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
MediumPaper
Dimensions10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collections
DescriptionBlack and white print taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image is a child holding a sign welcoming President Kennedy at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. Other children are visible behind her. They are behind a chain-link fence and are standing next to a tall metal pole. Their sign reads "Onward J.F.K. Grassroots-Democrats." On the reverse is one red ink stamp reading, "This photograph is not to be reproduced without permission of The Dallas Morning News". One black ink stamp reading: "DALLAS MORNING NEWS / NOV 22 1963 / NEWS STAFF PHOTO."
Curatorial Commentary
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
A number of roughly handwritten cardboard signs, often referencing "Grass Roots Democrats" in some form, were freely distributed by local college students to the crowd gathered along the fence at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963. The Museum has one original example in our Collection, saved by Love Field spectator Jan Sittel: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/56406. - Stephen Fagin, Curator