Image of a crowd of protestors carrying anti-LBJ signs in Dallas in 1960
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Image of a crowd of protestors carrying anti-LBJ signs in Dallas in 1960
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows a crowd of Richard Nixon supporters standing outside The Baker Hotel carrying various signs protesting Senator Lyndon B. Johnson who was visiting Dallas on November 4, 1960. A television camera can be seen along the left edge of the image. In the center of the image, the man holding the sign which reads "LBJ Sold Out to Yankee Socialists" is U.S. Congressman Bruce Alger.
Image of a crowd of protestors carrying anti-LBJ signs in Dallas in 1960
11/04/1960
Film
15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0122.0005
The November 5, 1960 edition of The Dallas Morning News included a story on page 1A that describes this protest and Johnson's reaction 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 Collections
The individual holding the sign which reads "LBJ Sold Out to Yankee Socialists" is U.S. Congressman Bruce Alger (1918-2015). Alger was the first Texas Republican to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives since Reconstruction. During his ten years in office, 1955-65, he was considered one of the nation's most conservative lawmakers. Although Alger was certainly part of the Johnson protest outside the Adolphus Hotel on November 4, 1960 - just four days before the presidential election - he later denied that he participated in any of the pushing or spitting that allegedly took place as the Johnsons made their way across Commerce Street. He did shout at Lyndon Johnson, however, informing the Senate Majority Leader that he was unwelcome in the City of Dallas. Democrats turned this Adolphus incident into political gold for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Within twenty-four hours of the demonstration, Democratic supporters were widely distributing handbills featuring a photograph of Congressman Alger with his protest sign, bearing the caption: "Dallas, Not Venezuela." This was a sly reference to Vice President Nixon's rocky visit to Caracas in 1958 when his car was attacked by anti-American demonstrators. It was a clever way of accusing all Republican demonstrators of being un-American without actually saying so. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of a crowd of protestors carrying anti-LBJ signs in Dallas in 1960
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows a crowd of Richard Nixon supporters standing outside The Baker Hotel carrying various signs protesting Senator Lyndon B. Johnson who was visiting Dallas on November 4, 1960. A television camera can be seen along the left edge of the image. In the center of the image, the man holding the sign which reads "LBJ Sold Out to Yankee Socialists" is U.S. Congressman Bruce Alger.
Image of a crowd of protestors carrying anti-LBJ signs in Dallas in 1960
11/04/1960
Crowds
Photographs
Presidential campaign
Campaign
Protests
Photographer
1960 presidential election
Sign
Elections
Presidential elections
Downtown Dallas
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Nixon, Richard M.
Alger, Bruce
The Dallas Morning News
Baker Hotel
Dallas
Film
15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0122.0005
The November 5, 1960 edition of The Dallas Morning News included a story on page 1A that describes this protest and Johnson's reaction 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 Collections
The individual holding the sign which reads "LBJ Sold Out to Yankee Socialists" is U.S. Congressman Bruce Alger (1918-2015). Alger was the first Texas Republican to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives since Reconstruction. During his ten years in office, 1955-65, he was considered one of the nation's most conservative lawmakers. Although Alger was certainly part of the Johnson protest outside the Adolphus Hotel on November 4, 1960 - just four days before the presidential election - he later denied that he participated in any of the pushing or spitting that allegedly took place as the Johnsons made their way across Commerce Street. He did shout at Lyndon Johnson, however, informing the Senate Majority Leader that he was unwelcome in the City of Dallas. Democrats turned this Adolphus incident into political gold for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Within twenty-four hours of the demonstration, Democratic supporters were widely distributing handbills featuring a photograph of Congressman Alger with his protest sign, bearing the caption: "Dallas, Not Venezuela." This was a sly reference to Vice President Nixon's rocky visit to Caracas in 1958 when his car was attacked by anti-American demonstrators. It was a clever way of accusing all Republican demonstrators of being un-American without actually saying so. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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