In the final days of the 1960 campaign, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird were accosted by demonstrators while visiting Dallas. This incident gained national media attention at the time, and focus would return immediately after the assassination in 1963 as a powerful example of the city’s volatile political atmosphere. Through photographs, newspaper accounts, and Museum oral histories, Museum Curator Stephen Fagin explored this extraordinary encounter at the Adolphus Hotel on November 4, 1960—the myth and the reality—and the long-term impact that this incident had on the public perception of Dallas, Texas.
The Sixth Floor Museum’s special exhibit, A Time For Greatness: The 1960 Kennedy Campaign, is open through November 13, 2016. Find more information at [ Ссылка ].
