/internal/media/dispatcher/45025/fullImage of Nixon supporters outside the Baker Hotel in Dallas11/04/196015/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)FilmThe Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Donated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history2014.080.0119.00020One original 35mm black and white negative image taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows crowds of Richard Nixon supporters standing outside of The Baker Hotel carrying various signs in protest to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, taken during his visit to Dallas, Texas on November 4, 1960. In the foreground are several women holding several different handmade signs reading: "Give Reuther Our Regards"; "Lost Both Jobs" [L, B and J underlined]; "Conservative? Liberal?" [cowboy straddling a fence]; "We won't trade Texas chili for Yankee cod"; also "Nixon" and "Tower" signs.
This image is on "Kodak Plus X Pan Film / Kodak Safety Film +." This image is labeled "6" on the film.
The metadata provided by The Dallas Morning News for the digital version of these images includes this description: "TDMN JFK negatives collection / Shot November 4, 1960 for this story, published November 5, 1960, page 1A: LBJ CALLS PRO-NIXON FANS AT HIS RALLY "DISCOURTEOUS" - SENATOR JEERED AT DALLAS HOTEL - Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson with his wife Friday dismissed police guards and pushed their way through a howling, chanting, jeering pro-Nixon crowd which he later called "frustrated, discourteous and desperate." It took the smiling Johnson and grim-faced Lady Bird almost 30 minutes to inch their way through the Republican demonstrators from the front entrance of the Hotel Adolphus to the Grand Ballroom where he was greeted by 2,000 wildly cheering luncheon guests. The Nixon demonstrators, among them Congressman Bruce Alger of Dallas, first confronted Johnson when his motorcade arrived at the Baker Hotel. // This is an uncredited TDMN staff photo."
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 "LBJ in Dallas, 11-4-60".
The negative sleeve has a typed adhesive label in the upper left corner. The label reads: "JFK 14". "Lyndon Johnson at Dal. Nov 4, 1960" is written in orange-red grease pencil in the "Assignment" section at the upper edge of the negative holder. "2339" is written in the "File No:" section.
The table of contents (2014.080.0002) listing for JFK 14 describes it as: "JFK 14: Visit of LBJ and Lady Bird to Dallas, 11-04-1960 (thirty-three, 35-mm. negs.)"Photographs655843.33375666752.381254762544587Negative (b&w)0E-10Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Morning News staff photographer. The image shows crowds of Richard Nixon supporters standing outside of The Baker Hotel carrying various signs in protest of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson who came to Dallas for a campaign visit on November 4, 1960.
Several women line the sidewalk holding handmade signs reading: "Give Reuther Our Regards"; "Lost Both Jobs" [L, B and J underlined]; "Conservative? Liberal?" [cowboy straddling a fence]; "We won't trade Texas chili for Yankee cod"; also "Nixon" and "Tower" signs.
CrowdsPhotographsPresidential campaignProtestsPhotographer1960 presidential electionSignJohnson, Lyndon B.Nixon, Richard M.The Dallas Morning NewsBaker HotelDallasThis incident on November 4, 1960, just four days before the presidential election, was a significant event at the time, but it gained international attention in 1963 following the assassination. For many, the treatment of Senator Johnson by political extremists helped solidify Dallas's reputation as a "city of hate." I wrote about this particular situation in my book, Assassination and Commemoration (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013). Here is an excerpt with footnotes for further reading on the long-lasting significance of this incident. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcOHZgFhyE
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Designated by city Republicans as “Tag Day,” crowds of young women distributed pro-Nixon tags and fliers and solicited funds on the downtown streets. Republicans waving signs reading “Lyndon Go Home” and “Let’s Ground Lady Bird” were also on hand at the Adolphus Hotel where Democratic vice presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson appeared at a campaign luncheon.[i]
Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson arrived by motorcade to find 400 hecklers at the intersection of Commerce and Akard Streets. As the Johnsons retreated into the Baker Hotel across from the Adolphus in order to freshen up, a young woman grabbed Mrs. Johnson’s gloves and tossed them into the gutter. By this time the crowd had grown to include “riff-raff from the [nearby] beer parlors and some of the lower class restaurants.”[ii] After refusing both police protection and recommendations that he and his wife enter the Adolphus via a side door, Johnson’s party made their way across the street. The fifty yard trek took thirty minutes.[iii]
Among the hostile crowd, Congressman Bruce Alger, later deemed “the man primarily responsible for the demonstration,” brandished a sign that read, “LBJ Sold Out to Yankee Socialists.”[iv] Though Alger later claimed that he was not present for any of the pushing or shoving which ensued, he did tell the jubilant crowd that he wanted to demonstrate that the Senate Majority Leader was unwelcome in the City of Dallas. Alger’s supporters “hissed at and spat upon” the Johnsons as they pushed their way across the street.[v] One of the senator’s supporters later said that she was kicked, hit, stuck by pins, and cursed at by the angry protestors.[vi] The following day, The Dallas Morning News described the scene as “45 minutes of Republican bedlam that was the nearest thing to an uncontrollable mob Dallas [had] witnessed since the wilder days of the Texas-Oklahoma football games.”[vii]
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[i] James Lehrer and Sue Connally, “LBJ, Wife Remain Calm,” The Dallas Morning News, November 5, 1960; Warren Leslie, Dallas Public and Private, p. 180-181; Melvin Belli with Maurice C. Carroll, Dallas Justice, p. 17-18.
[ii] Ibid, p. 182; Darwin Payne, Big D, p. 349.
[iii] Leslie, Dallas Public and Private, p. 182-183; Lehrer and Connally, “LBJ, Wife Remain Calm.”
[iv] Payne, Big D, p. 350.
[v] Mike Quinn, “Comment Continues Over Demonstration Against Johnson,” The Dallas Morning News, November 7, 1960; Leslie, Dallas Public and Private, p. 183-184.
[vi] “Readers Back, Rap LBJ Demonstration,” The Dallas Morning News, November 7, 1960.
[vii] Lehrer and Connally, “LBJ, Wife Remain Calm.”