/internal/media/dispatcher/15405/fullImage of dignitaries at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast11/22/196315/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)FilmWilliam Allen, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1989.100.0003.00050Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer William Allen. This image shows Congressman Jim Wright, Senator Ralph Yarborough, and Texas governor's wife Nellie Connally at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963.
The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is labeled #6 on section 1 of negative strip 3.Photographs643163.60000000002.40000000003212Negative (b&w)Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer William Allen. This image shows Congressman Jim Wright, Senator Ralph Yarborough, and the Texas governor's wife, Nellie Connally, at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963.
Fort Worth breakfastFort WorthPhotographsAllen, WilliamWright, JimConnally, NellieYarborough, RalphHotel TexasDallas Times HeraldFort Worth Chamber of CommerceFort WorthFort Worth political leader James C. "Jim" Wright, Jr. (left) represented Texas's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1955 to 1989. He was the 56th Speaker of the House, serving under Presidents Reagan and Bush from 1987 to 1989. Mr. Wright passed away on May 6, 2015.
Ralph W. Yarborough was a U.S. Senator from Texas, serving from 1957 to 1971. At the time of the assassination, he was the leader of the state Democratic Party's liberal or progressive wing and was often at odds with the more conservative Governor John Connally. President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963 was an attempt to ease the friction between these two political factions. Yarborough passed away in 1996. - Stephen Fagin, Curator