/internal/media/dispatcher/11852/fullImage of Nixon campaign parade in Dallas on September 12, 196009/12/19602 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmAnita Hansen Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2005.018.00270Original 35 mm color slide showing a parade held in downtown Dallas for visiting Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon on September 12, 1960.
The photographer stood on Akard Street near the northwest corner of its intersection with Jackson Street. The photo was taken looking south on Akard Street toward the Federal Reserve building. A female drill team in red, white and blue uniforms marches south on Akard Street, away from the photographer.
The slide is housed in a cardboard slide mount that is printed with the words "KODACHROME TRANSPARENCY / KODAKCHROME TRANSPARENCY" on the back and "MADE IN U.S.A." on the front. A number "12" and the date is printed in the bottom corner of the mount and the date "SEP 60" are debossed into the cardboard. The words "132 Nixon parade 10-1960" are handwritten on the mount in blue ball-point pen.Photographs642015.08001016005.080010160033203Slide0E-10Original 35mm color slide on Kodak Kodachrome Transparency Film taken by local amateur photographer Anita Hansen showing crowds lined up in downtown Dallas during a parade held for visiting Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon on September 12, 1960. The photographer stood on Akard Street near the northwest corner of the intersection with Jackson Street, looking south along Akard Street. Crowds line both sides of Akard Street while the Kilgore Rangerettes march south.1960 presidential electionMotorcadeDowntown DallasPresidential campaignParadeCrowdsPhotographsAkard StreetNixon, Richard M.DallasPhotographer Anita Hansen returned to this same location on the following day, September 13, 1960, to witness a similar parade featuring Senator John F. Kennedy and his running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. In fact, the Kilgore Rangerettes, seen in this photo, also marched in Senator Kennedy's parade the following day.
The Kilgore Rangerettes, from Kilgore College in east Texas, started in 1940 and are known as "the first precision dance team in the world." The Rangerettes continue to perform to the present day. In the early 1960s, the length of their uniform skirts - shortened to above the knee since the program's inception in 1940 - was a subject of some local controversy. - Stephen Fagin, Curator