Seems like not much changed during the past 50 years

In a report in the WSJ about how Dallas is going to commemorate Nov. 22nd - an artist wants to fill the streets with love inspired posters - there were also the stories of the atmosphere there:

"Dallas's image had taken a hit even before the killing, according to historians. An ultraconservative strain in the city, led by Edwin Walker, a former Army major general with anticommunist and segregationist views, had criticized the Democrat Kennedy as soft on Communism.

In November 1960, days before the presidential election, Kennedy's running mate Lyndon Johnson and his wife were accosted and spit on in Dallas by a crowd of protesters that included many well-to-do Republican women. The episode became known as the "Mink Coat Mob."

Then, a month before the assassination, Kennedy's ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, was hit on the head by a woman carrying a "Down with the U.N." picket sign in Dallas."

But what got my attention is the picture, below - may be hard to read - of a crowd t Love Field, waiting the arrival of Kennedy with posters, one of which I could read: Vote Right, Vote White, Anyone but NAACP's Kennedy. Also the Confederate Flag.

And I was thinking that similar "welcoming committees" can still wait Obama. Perhaps not in Dallas, but certainly in other places.





The title of the story is

Fifty Years After Kennedy Death, Dallas Opens an Old Wound

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304500404579129790210993958

You may have to copy and paste the title onto google if the link does not open