lbjlibrary: This photo is of Catcus Pryor, long time radio and television host of KTBC.   In 1942, Lady Bird and Lyndon purchased Austin radio station KTBC with Lady Bird’s inheritance.  By the 1950s the Johnsons expanded the radio station into the television market, and Pryor was one of the first faces Austinites got to know over the air.  Always the entertainer, Pryor would emcee at programs for the Johnsons. To learn more about Pryor please see our press release honoring this man after his death in 2011.   Worth reblogging for his name alone.
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This photo is of Catcus Pryor, long time radio and television host of KTBC.  
 
In 1942, Lady Bird and Lyndon purchased Austin radio station KTBC with Lady Bird’s inheritance.  By the 1950s the Johnsons expanded the radio station into the television market, and Pryor was one of the first faces Austinites got to know over the air.  Always the entertainer, Pryor would emcee at programs for the Johnsons.

To learn more about Pryor please see our press release honoring this man after his death in 2011.  

Worth reblogging for his name alone.

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lbjlibrary: 1940: Lady Bird shoots the first film of what we would later call Mrs. Johnson’s Home Movie Collection. She had a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, after all. How lucky are we at the LBJ Library to have a First Lady who made her own documentary films? We’ll post one later today, and you’ll see many more as we move through time. She typically did the narration much later, so you’ll also get to hear her voice describing what she sees as she remembers the people and events she filmed. Stay tuned! LBJ Library photo 41-6-84. This image may be used free of charge as long as credit is given to the source, the Austin American Statesman. 
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1940: Lady Bird shoots the first film of what we would later call Mrs. Johnson’s Home Movie Collection. She had a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, after all. How lucky are we at the LBJ Library to have a First Lady who made her own documentary films?

We’ll post one later today, and you’ll see many more as we move through time. She typically did the narration much later, so you’ll also get to hear her voice describing what she sees as she remembers the people and events she filmed. Stay tuned!

LBJ Library photo 41-6-84. This image may be used free of charge as long as credit is given to the source, the Austin American Statesman. 

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lbjlibrary: 1934: Claudia (Lady Bird) Taylor graduates from UT-Austin. She had already earned a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1933, and she received a degree in Journalism the following year. Lady Bird would later be awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from UT in 1964 and was appointed to the UT Board of Regents in 1971.  Additionally she held honorary degrees at the following institutions: Texas Woman’s University, Middlebury College, Williams College, Southwestern University in Georgetown, the University of Alabama, Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University-San Marcos), Washington College, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York, Southern Methodist University, St. Edward’s University and Boston University. LBJ Photo Archive: Image B7029-3. Public domain. First Ladies are awesome.
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1934: Claudia (Lady Bird) Taylor graduates from UT-Austin. She had already earned a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1933, and she received a degree in Journalism the following year.

Lady Bird would later be awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from UT in 1964 and was appointed to the UT Board of Regents in 1971. 

Additionally she held honorary degrees at the following institutions: Texas Woman’s University, Middlebury College, Williams College, Southwestern University in Georgetown, the University of Alabama, Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University-San Marcos), Washington College, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York, Southern Methodist University, St. Edward’s University and Boston University.

LBJ Photo Archive: Image B7029-3. Public domain.


First Ladies are awesome.

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We are blogging the life and legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson at the LBJ Time Machine Tumblr.  Join us on a 13-month ride, starting with the birth of LBJ in 1908 and continuing right up to the current day.  We’ll follow him through his early years in Texas, to Congress and the presidency, then back to Texas.

Along the way we’ll hear the voice of LBJ, watch Lady Bird’s home movies, review plans for the LBJ Library, and see Museum exhibits.  The ride through time will end at the grand reopening of the LBJ Library and Museum on December 22, 2012.

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The future Johnsons, Lyndon and Lady Bird, around 1915.

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November 3, 1964.  Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected President of the United States with the greatest percentage of the total popular vote (61%) ever attained by a Presidential candidate. Hubert Humphrey is elected Vice President.

-On This Day in LBJ Library

Mikhail Gorbachev will be at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library tonight.   Former Soviet President Gorbechev will give a talk in the LBJ Auditorium in Austin, Texas at 6 pm.  Here is  Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev meeting with President Reagan and Vice-President Bush on Governor’s Island, New York.  The Empire State Building is seen behind them.  12/7/88.
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Mikhail Gorbachev will be at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library tonight.   Former Soviet President Gorbechev will give a talk in the LBJ Auditorium in Austin, Texas at 6 pm. 

Here is  Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev meeting with President Reagan and Vice-President Bush on Governor’s Island, New York.  The Empire State Building is seen behind them.  12/7/88.

Presidential ticket hopefuls, LBJ and JFK, stand in their convertible motorcade to greet supporters in front of the State Capitol in Austin, Texas.  Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson campaigning.  September 13, 1960.
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Presidential ticket hopefuls, LBJ and JFK, stand in their convertible motorcade to greet supporters in front of the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. 

Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson campaigning.  September 13, 1960.

We are thinking of all in Texas affected by the fires.  Our hearts go out to LBJ Library staff, friends, and visitors who have lost their homes.

Here’s a video of Austin at her finest from one of Lady Bird Johnson’s home movies.  In it, Lady Bird gives a tour of some of her favorite sights including wildflowers, the University of Texas, The State Capitol, and the Texas flag waving in the breeze.

-via the LBJ Library on Facebook

Grammy-winning artist Esperanza Spalding counts the Johnson Presidential Library as one of her favorite spots in Austin.  When ELLE Magazine photographed Ms. Spalding for its August issue, she chose the LBJ Library for the shoot location.  Here’s a snapshot taken by the Library staff in the Great Hall of the Johnson Library. Psst, if you are interested in seeing the final fashion glossy photo, Ms. Spalding and the LBJ Library make their appearance on page 161.  -via the Johnson Library on Facebook
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Grammy-winning artist Esperanza Spalding counts the Johnson Presidential Library as one of her favorite spots in Austin.  When ELLE Magazine photographed Ms. Spalding for its August issue, she chose the LBJ Library for the shoot location.  Here’s a snapshot taken by the Library staff in the Great Hall of the Johnson Library.

Psst, if you are interested in seeing the final fashion glossy photo, Ms. Spalding and the LBJ Library make their appearance on page 161. 

-via the Johnson Library on Facebook