/internal/media/dispatcher/43857/fullImage of Dallas Memorial Auditorium during Kennedy's campaign stop09/13/19602 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (6 × 6 cm)FilmThe Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Donated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history2014.080.00190One original 120 film black and white negative taken by The Dallas Morning News staff photographer Clint Grant. This image shows the audience at Dallas Memorial Auditorium during John F. Kennedy's campaign visit on September 13, 1960. Members of the news media are visible in the lower left portion of the image; beyond them the auditorium is filled with people in the floor seats and balcony. Most people are standing and many appear to be cheering or waving.
This negative is on Kodak Safety Film.
This item was originally stored in a negative sleeve in the "The Dallas Morning News JFK Assassination Negatives and Contact Sheets Vol. 1" binder (2014.080.0001). This item was in the section of the binder labeled "JFK in Dallas, 9-14-60".
The negative sleeve has a typed adhesive label in the upper left corner. The label reads: "JFK 4". "JFK, DAL. 9/14/60" is written in orange-red grease pencil in the "Assignment" section at the upper edge of the negative holder. "3" is written in the "File No:" section.
The table of contents (2014.080.0002) listing for JFK 4 describes it as: "JFK 4: JFK's visit to Dallas as Presidential nominee, 9-14-1960, including views with LBJ, Lady Bird, Pat Lawford, and Stanley Marcus (twelve, 120-size negs)".
Photographs653236.03251206506.032512065044268Negative (b&w)0E-10Original 120 mm black and white negative taken by The Dallas Morning News staff photographer Clint Grant of the audience at Dallas Memorial Auditorium during John F. Kennedy's campaign visit on September 13, 1960. Members of the news media are visible in the lower left portion of the image; beyond them the auditorium is filled with people in the floor seats and balcony. Most people are standing and many appear to be cheering or waving.
PhotographsPresidential campaignPhotographer1960 presidential electionPressGrant, ClintThe Dallas Morning NewsDallas Memorial AuditoriumDallasJust over three years after Senator Kennedy's speech, Dallas's Memorial Auditorium was also the location for United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's address on U.N. Day, October 26, 1963. A crowd of right-wing demonstrators, by some accounts numbering more than one hundred, persistently interrupted Stevenson's locally-televised speech. Following his program, in a moment captured on film and seen around the country, Stevenson was violently hit on the head with a placard outside Memorial Auditorium. Occuring less than one month before the assassination, this incident helped to unfairly characterize all of Dallas as a toxic "city of hate" in the immediate aftermath. - Stephen Fagin, Curator