/internal/media/dispatcher/45260/fullLyndon and Lady Bird Johnson surrounded by a crowd during a Dallas campaign stop11/04/196015/16 × 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 history2014.080.0129.00020One 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) amidst a crowd of supporters and protesters with campaign signs, and was taken during their visit to Dallas, Texas on November 4, 1960. A photographer on the left is holding a camera with a large flash. Kennedy-Johnson campaign signs and at least one "Tower" sign are in the image. This is most likely at 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 "28" 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.)"Photographs654423.33375666752.381254762544649Negative (b&w)0E-10Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson amidst a crowd of supporters and protesters during a campaign visit to Dallas on November 4, 1960. A photographer on the left is holding a camera with a large flash. Kennedy-Johnson campaign signs and at least one "Tower" sign are in the image. This event took place four days before the presidential election.
CrowdsPhotographsPresidential campaignCampaignProtestsPhotographer1960 presidential electionSignDowntown DallasJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, Lady BirdThe Dallas Morning NewsAdolphus HotelDallasThe November 5, 1960 edition of The Dallas Morning News included a story on page 1A that describes this campaign visit in detail:
"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."
- Lindsey Richardson, Curator of CollectionsThe Adolphus Hotel incident in Dallas, just four days before the election, remains one of the most colorful and notorious moments of the 1960 presidential campaign -- and it very likely shifted support to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in crucial areas of the South. Many Republicans lamented in the aftermath of Kennedy's victory that Republican demonstrators in Dallas had spoiled the election.
I had the pleasure of delivering a lecture on this subject during the run of our special exhibit, "A Time for Greatness: The 1960 Kennedy Campaign." You can view a recording of this presentation here on the Museum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcOHZgFhyE. - Stephen Fagin, Curator