"Welcome to Texas Jack and Jackie" sign
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"Welcome to Texas Jack and Jackie" sign
Locally-produced sign used by members of the crowd in Fort Worth, Texas, to welcome the Kennedys, November 21 - 22, 1963. The stenciled letters are painted red and have red glitter applied on top of the paint. The donor was a member of the crowd outside the Hotel Texas the morning of November 22, 1963. She bought the sign from a vendor that morning.
"Welcome to Texas Jack and Jackie" sign
11/21/1963 - 11/22/1963
Cardboard
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Cheryl Hartman Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2012.033.0001
Signs like this one were commercially made and sold to spectators awaiting the Kennedys' visit to Fort Worth. Similar signs welcoming President and Mrs. Kennedy turn up in films and photographs taken on both the evening of Thursday, November 21, and the morning of Friday, November 22. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
"Welcome to Texas Jack and Jackie" sign
Locally-produced sign used by members of the crowd in Fort Worth, Texas, to welcome the Kennedys, November 21 - 22, 1963. The stenciled letters are painted red and have red glitter applied on top of the paint. The donor was a member of the crowd outside the Hotel Texas the morning of November 22, 1963. She bought the sign from a vendor that morning.
"Welcome to Texas Jack and Jackie" sign
11/21/1963 - 11/22/1963
Fort Worth
Crowds
Sign
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
Hotel Texas
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Cardboard
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Cheryl Hartman Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2012.033.0001
Signs like this one were commercially made and sold to spectators awaiting the Kennedys' visit to Fort Worth. Similar signs welcoming President and Mrs. Kennedy turn up in films and photographs taken on both the evening of Thursday, November 21, and the morning of Friday, November 22. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
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