/internal/media/dispatcher/24778/fullImage of the crowd gathered at Love Field to welcome President Kennedy to Dallas11/22/196315/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.6 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.0003.00010Black and white 35mm negative showing the crowd gathered at Love Field to greet President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The image was taken by Tom C. Dillard, Chief Photographer at The Dallas Morning News.
In the image, a crowd of people can be seen standing behind a chain link fence. Some of them are holding handmade signs. On the left side of the image, there are a handful of people standing outside of the fence in which the crowd is gathered: there is a group of men standing together and a separate group of two women.
To the right of center, there is a pole, possibly a lamp post, between the fence and the photographer.
In the background in the upper right corner there is a bus with "WFAA - TV, The Dallas Morning News," printed on its side. There is also a parking lot in the background behind the bus on the left side of the image.
The photograph was taken a short distance back from the crowd. The photographer also might have been elevated somehow judging by the angle from which the image was taken.Photographs650253.60000000002.400000000011778Negative (b&w)0E-10Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows the crowd at Love Field waiting on the arrival of the Kennedys for the motorcade through Dallas on November 22, 1963. The crowd is behind a chain-link fence, and many people hold signs welcoming President Kennedy to Dallas. A local WFAA-TV news van is visible in the background.CrowdsReporterPhotographsSignPressDillard, Tom C.The Dallas Morning NewsLove FieldWFAADallasA number of similar handmade signs were freely distributed to spectators at Dallas Love Field on the morning of November 22, 1963. Although the wording on the roughly handwritten signs differed, all referenced "Grassroots Democrats," with some also indicating an affiliation with nearby Southern Methodist University. Slogans on these signs included: "All the Way with JFK," "Welcome Jack," and "We Love Jackie." At the bottom of this photograph, notice a number of unused signs stacked and scattered on the concrete. The only surviving example of these handmade Love Field signs is in the Museum's Collection, 2018.021.0002.
WFAA-TV cameraman Malcom Couch can be seen in this photo (far left middle) adjusting the lens of his 16mm camera. Couch would shortly join photographer Tom Dillard in Camera Car #3 in the Dallas motorcade. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator