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Image of an airport worker searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an airport worker and a Dallas Police officer searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field after a bomb threat on the afternoon of November 24, 1963. A woman watches them search her bag.Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell was the target of the bomb threat that afternoon. Police officers and airport staff secured the area and investigated his plane and all the passengers and luggage aboard. Cabell departed 40 minutes later than scheduled when nothing was found.Curators have determined that the most likely photographer for this negative strip was Bill Beal, but this cannot be confirmed absolutely at this time.

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Image of an airport worker searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field

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11/24/1963

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15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)

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Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

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1989.100.0050.0001

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Image of an airport worker searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an airport worker and a Dallas Police officer searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field after a bomb threat on the afternoon of November 24, 1963. A woman watches them search her bag.Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell was the target of the bomb threat that afternoon. Police officers and airport staff secured the area and investigated his plane and all the passengers and luggage aboard. Cabell departed 40 minutes later than scheduled when nothing was found.Curators have determined that the most likely photographer for this negative strip was Bill Beal, but this cannot be confirmed absolutely at this time.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of an airport worker searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field

Date:

11/24/1963

Terms:

Threats

Police

Photographs

Beal, Bill

Cabell, Earle

Dallas Times Herald

Dallas Police Department

Love Field

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1989.100.0050.0001