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Image of crowds waiting for Kennedy at Meacham Field in Fort Worth

Original 120 mm black and white negative taken by The Dallas Morning News staff photographer Clint Grant. The image shows a crowd of people holding Kennedy-Johnson campaign signs while standing behind a chain-link fence at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas, on September 13, 1960. A camera is set up on a tripod in the left side of the image. There are a couple of signs reading "KENNEDY for President" and another with the words "BAPTIST for KENNEDY."

Object Details
Object title:

Image of crowds waiting for Kennedy at Meacham Field in Fort Worth

Date:

09/13/1960

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0079.0002

Curatorial Note:

The day before his 1960 Dallas/Fort Worth 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. The "Baptist for Kennedy" sign in this photograph certainly references the "religious issue" of the 1960 campaign and likely signifies support for his televised speech from Houston the day before. It is, however, somewhat interesting that the sign uses the singular "Baptist" rather than the plural "Baptists." - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator

Image of crowds waiting for Kennedy at Meacham Field in Fort Worth

Original 120 mm black and white negative taken by The Dallas Morning News staff photographer Clint Grant. The image shows a crowd of people holding Kennedy-Johnson campaign signs while standing behind a chain-link fence at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas, on September 13, 1960. A camera is set up on a tripod in the left side of the image. There are a couple of signs reading "KENNEDY for President" and another with the words "BAPTIST for KENNEDY."

Object Details
Object title:

Image of crowds waiting for Kennedy at Meacham Field in Fort Worth

Date:

09/13/1960

Terms:

Crowds

Photographs

Presidential campaign

Photographer

1960 presidential election

Fort Worth

Kennedy, John F.

Grant, Clint

The Dallas Morning News

Meacham Field

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0079.0002

Curatorial Note:

The day before his 1960 Dallas/Fort Worth 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. The "Baptist for Kennedy" sign in this photograph certainly references the "religious issue" of the 1960 campaign and likely signifies support for his televised speech from Houston the day before. It is, however, somewhat interesting that the sign uses the singular "Baptist" rather than the plural "Baptists." - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator