26 Facts About Clint Grant

Donald Clinton Grant was an American photographer and photojournalist based in Dallas, Texas.

Clint Grant was a staff photographer with The Dallas Morning News from 1949 to 1986.

Clint Grant was particularly known for his images of animals and children.

Clint Grant would make several pictures at Parkland Memorial Hospital within minutes after Kennedy's motorcade arrived following the shooting in Dealey Plaza.

Clint Grant was the recipient of multiple photojournalism awards during his career, including the Medallion for Excellence in Photojournalism.

Clint Grant retired from The Dallas Morning News in 1986, but continued working in a semi-retired capacity for more than a decade thereafter.

Clint Grant died in Dallas of heart failure at age 93.

Clint Grant got a job with the Photo Department, but he was drafted into the United States Army before he could report to work.

Clint Grant served during World War II in Europe, where he never used a camera.

Clint Grant married Myrtis Ann Halliburton in 1939 after a brief courtship; they had known each other for ten months before they walked down the aisle.

When Clint Grant returned from overseas to Dallas in 1945, all Morning News staff photographers resumed their duties, leaving him without a job.

Clint Grant ran a photography studio until 1949, when a position at the newspaper became available.

Clint Grant gained a reputation for generosity as a mentor while with the newspaper, accompanying many young photographers on their early assignments; one of them later recalled that whenever the Morning News needed a feature photograph, they would send "the trusty Clint Grant" to the zoo to work with an animal.

Clint Grant taught classes in photography in the 1950s and '60s at North Texas University, where he served on the journalism advisory board.

Clint Grant was the official photographer for the Dallas Zoo and the State Fair of Texas.

One of Clint Grant's photos was blown up to eight feet and displayed for one year in Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

Clint Grant photographed the culinary creations of some of the top chefs in Dallas, who all knew Grant and respected his work.

Clint Grant was present for the 1961 funeral for three-time House Speaker Sam Rayburn, where he captured former Presidents Truman and Dwight D Eisenhower, President Kennedy, House Parliamentarian Clarence Cannon, and Vice President Lyndon B Johnson standing together.

Clint Grant accompanied Kennedy and Johnson, making numerous photographs of the trip; the pictures were developed, but kept in storage until their publication in 2013.

At Dallas Love Field, Clint Grant made the only published photograph from that visit of the president and Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and Texas Governor John Connally and Nellie Connally, all in the same image.

Since he was the only Dallas-based member of the press in camera car two, Clint Grant directed his driver to the Trade Mart, where they saw no activity.

Once at Parkland, Clint Grant started snapping pictures of anything he could, including Vice President Johnson's car, and a man and a police officer delivering what Clint Grant believed was blood plasma.

Twenty-five years after the assassination, Clint Grant wrote that the events did not really sink in until after he had finished his work that day.

Clint Grant retired his position with The Dallas Morning News in 1986; he stayed on in a semi-retired capacity until 1997.

Five years later, Clint Grant was awarded an honorary degree from Knox College in Illinois, which congratulated Clint Grant for more than 100 photojournalism honors at the state, regional and national levels, including the Medallion for Excellence in Photojournalism from the Southwest Journalism Forum.

Clint Grant died of heart failure in his Dallas home in 2010.