/internal/media/dispatcher/45161/fullImage of the Johnsons surrounded by Nixon supporters in the Baker Hotel11/04/196015/16 × 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 history2014.080.0127.00030One original 35mm black and white negative image taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (center of image to left of man wearing cowboy hat) amidst a crowd of supporters and protesters with campaign signs, and was taken during their visit to Dallas, Texas on November 4, 1960. This is most likely inside of the Baker Hotel (across the street from The Adolphus Hotel). Taken four days before the presidential election.
This image is on "Kodak Plus X Pan Film / Kodak Safety Film +." This image is labeled "17" 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 15". "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. "2338" is written in the "File No:" section.
The table of contents (2014.080.0002) listing for JFK 15 describes it as: "JFK 15: More views of LBJ and Lady Bird to Dallas, 11-04-1960 (thirty-five, 35-mm. negs.)"Photographs653333.33375666752.381254762544636Negative (b&w)0E-10One original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (center of image to left of man wearing cowboy hat) amidst a crowd of supporters and protesters with campaign signs, taken during their visit to Dallas, Texas on November 4, 1960. This is most likely inside of the Baker Hotel (across the street from The Adolphus Hotel). Taken four days before the presidential election.
CrowdsPhotographsPresidential campaignProtestsPhotographer1960 presidential electionSignJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, Lady BirdThe Dallas Morning NewsDallasThis 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
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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.”