President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1966. MP 879. Public domain.
This film is from the LBJ Library moving picture collection created by the White House Naval Photographic Unit, aka the Navy Films. The films consist of monthly reports on the activities of President and Mrs. Johnson from 1963-1969.
Below is an edited scene list for this film, from the LBJ Library audiovisual archives. We included useful shot descriptions where possible, although most have been cut for length. For more information please contact johnson.library@nara.gov.
LBJ returns from his trip to Asia
LBJ arrives at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska, 11/1/1966
LBJ arrives at Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 11/3/1966
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson, Sec. Dean Rusk are greeted upon debarking at night
Press conference in White House Cabinet Room, 11/3/1966
Still photographs from the Asian trip, 10/17/1966-11/1/1966
Press conference at the LBJ Ranch, Texas, 11/5/1966
Profile shot of Sec. Robert McNamara speaking at the podium at the LBJ Ranch house as LBJ looks on
Luci Johnson Nugent, LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson talking, LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson walk away
LBJ signs bills in his LBJ Ranch office, Texas
Beagle sitting in recliner chair in LBJ Ranch office, tilt up to show desk
LBJ trip to Cotulla, Texas, 11/7/1966
LBJ, Amb. Arthur Goldberg aboard Air Force One
LBJ in Cotulla, Texas
LBJ visit to Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, 11/7/1966
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson vote at the Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Johnson City, Texas, 11/8/1966
LBJ observes the election results at the LBJ Ranch, Texas
Off TV shot of David Brinkley
LBJ sitting at his desk at the LBJ Ranch watching TV
MS of Chet Huntley on TV
Press conference at the LBJ Ranch, Texas, 11/10/1966
Reporters taking notes
Luci Johnson Nugent, Lynda Johnson sitting at a picnic table listening
Amb. Averell Harriman visits the LBJ Ranch, Texas, 11/11/1966
Arrival of Ambassador Averell Harriman
Press Conference with Amb. Averell Harriman
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson attend services at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Texas, 11/13/1966
Press conference at the Municipal Building, Fredericksburg, Texas, 11/13/1966
LBJ trip to Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, for scheduled surgery, 11/15/1966
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson board Air Force One at Randolph AFB, San Antonio, Texas
LBJ at Bethesda Naval Hospital and in operating room
B&W shot of Adm. George Burkeley
Dissolve to B&W photograph of doctors wheeling LBJ into the OR, zoom in to a med. Close-up of one of the doctors
B&W shot of doctors talking, looking at papers
B&W shot of doctors operating on LBJ, pan left
LBJ visits with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at the hospital
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson celebrate their 32nd wedding anniversary with V.P. Hubert Humphrey, others, at the hospital
Dissolve to cake reading: "32 Happy Years"
Conclusion of Bethesda Naval Hospital stay; departure for Texas
Dissolve to a B&W photo of LBJ speaking with Courtney Valenti
B&W photo of two TVs, pan right to show LBJ watching from the edge of the bed, zoom in to a close-up of LBJ
Dissolve to Marine-1 taxiing in
Lady Bird Johnson, Patrick Nugent, Luci Johnson Nugent laughing
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson, Patrick Nugent, Luci Johnson Nugent arrive at Bergstrom AFB, Austin, Texas 11/19/1966
LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson boarding the Convair, LBJ waves, fade to black
John McCloy, Sec. Dean Rusk, Sec. Robert McNamara, Walt Rostow arrive at the LBJ Ranch, 11/23/1966
Awards ceremony for Gemini Astronauts at the LBJ Ranch, Texas, 11/23/1966
Close-up of NASA insignia on the plane
James Webb, others debarking from the plane
Astronauts Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Aldrin, Mr. & Mrs. James Lovell debarking from the plane
Dissolve to Lady Bird Johnson talking with astronaut wives
Stone step reading: "24 April 60 Wally Schirra"
Stone step reading: "21 July 61 Gus Grissom"
Stone step reading: "24 April 62 John Glenn", pan left to a stone step reading: "Alan B. Shepard 4/25/62"
LBJ speaking from the podium as Lady Bird Johnson, others look on
Close-up of framed award reading: "Nat'l Aeronautics and Space Administration Edwin G. Aldrin Exceptional Service Medal"
McCloy, Sec. Robert McNamara, Rostow, Sec. Dean Rusk, two unidentified men
Congressmen Carl Albert, Hale Boggs, and Gerald Ford, V.P. Hubert Humphrey, Senators Everett Dirksen and Mike Mansfield arrive for a bipartisan meeting with LBJ, LBJ Ranch, Texas, 11/25/1966
LBJ, Congressional leaders at an outdoor meeting at a picnic table
LBJ boarding Marine-1 Helicopter to leave Texas, 11/29/1966
Fade to a Lincoln Continental driving in the grass
LBJ meeting with Jake Jacobson aboard Marine-1 Helicopter
In Washington, DC
LBJ working at his desk in the White House Oval Office
