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Image of Senators Kennedy, Johnson and Yarborough with Sam Rayburn at Love Field
Image of Senators Kennedy, Johnson and Yarborough with Sam Rayburn at Love Field

Image of Senators Kennedy, Johnson and Yarborough with Sam Rayburn at Love Field

Object number2014.080.0046.0002
Date09/13/1960
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Donald C. Grant
ObjectNegative (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
MediumFilm
Dimensions2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
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DescriptionOriginal 120mm black and white negative taken by The Dallas Morning News staff photographer Clint Grant. Senator John F. Kennedy, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Ralph Yarborough, U. S. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and one other man are holding their hands out in front of them one on top of the other. The group is at Love Field airport in Dallas during a presidential campaign visit on September 13, 1960. A sign for Southwest Airmotive is visible in the background.
Curatorial Commentary
The day before his 1960 Dallas visit, Senator Kennedy made a major address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas (the same hotel he would again visit on November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination). In his televised address on September 12, 1960, Kennedy directly confronted the "religious issue:" pointed accusations that he would allow his Catholic faith to influence the execution of his responsibilities as president. His bold confrontation of this question made this one of the most important speeches of the 1960 campaign. He visited Dallas the following day. - Stephen Fagin, Curator