Dedication of LBJ’s Childhood Home (1965)

Duration: 12:02

Year Published: 1965

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: Shot for an Austin-based news affiliate, this raw footage captures the dedication of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s boyhood home in Johnson City as a museum on May 13, 1965. (The house is now a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park.) Judge Homer Thornberry presides over the ceremony. Also included is footage of Governor John Connally leading a press conference in his public reception room at the Texas State Capitol. Please note: The majority of the film, including all but the final line of Thornberry’s speech, is silent.