Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field
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Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field
Black and white print taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image is a child holding a sign welcoming President Kennedy at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. Other children are visible behind her. They are behind a chain-link fence and are standing next to a tall metal pole. Their sign reads "Onward J.F.K. Grassroots-Democrats."On the reverse is one red ink stamp reading, "This photograph is not to be reproduced without permission of The Dallas Morning News". One black ink stamp reading: "DALLAS MORNING NEWS / NOV 22 1963 / NEWS STAFF PHOTO."
Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field
11/22/1963
Paper
10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0676
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.
A number of roughly handwritten cardboard signs, often referencing "Grass Roots Democrats" in some form, were freely distributed by local college students to the crowd gathered along the fence at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963. The Museum has one original example in our Collection, saved by Love Field spectator Jan Sittel: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/56406. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field
Black and white print taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image is a child holding a sign welcoming President Kennedy at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. Other children are visible behind her. They are behind a chain-link fence and are standing next to a tall metal pole. Their sign reads "Onward J.F.K. Grassroots-Democrats."On the reverse is one red ink stamp reading, "This photograph is not to be reproduced without permission of The Dallas Morning News". One black ink stamp reading: "DALLAS MORNING NEWS / NOV 22 1963 / NEWS STAFF PHOTO."
Image of a child holding a sign at Dallas Love Field
11/22/1963
Photographs
Crowds
Childhood
Sign
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
The Dallas Morning News
Love Field
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Dallas
Paper
10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0676
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.
A number of roughly handwritten cardboard signs, often referencing "Grass Roots Democrats" in some form, were freely distributed by local college students to the crowd gathered along the fence at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963. The Museum has one original example in our Collection, saved by Love Field spectator Jan Sittel: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/56406. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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