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.

(via lbjlibrary)

Source: lbjlibrary.org

Memorial service for President Lyndon B. Johnson - Washington D.C. January 25, 1973. Yesterday marked the anniversary of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s death on January 22, 1973.  Our 36th President died at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall,Texas and is buried in the family grave site near his birthplace.  LBJ - A Life -from the LBJ Library
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Memorial service for President Lyndon B. Johnson - Washington D.C. January 25, 1973.

Yesterday marked the anniversary of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s death on January 22, 1973.  Our 36th President died at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall,Texas and is buried in the family grave site near his birthplace. 

LBJ - A Life

-from the LBJ Library

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1941: LBJ decides to run for Senate. His opponent will be W. Lee O’Daniel, better known as “Pappy” O’Daniel.

Pappy was a radio celebrity who became Texas Governor in 1939. Advertising for his company, Hillbillly Flour, he was well known for the slogan “Pass the Biscuits Pappy.”  The music for “Beautiful Texas,” one of O’Daniel’s more popular tunes, is featured on the Texas State Library and Archives Commission website. 

To learn more about Pappy, his political career, and involvement with Western Swing music, check out these pages from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and Texas State Historical Association.

Source: tsl.state.tx.us

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. 

Source: lbjlibrary.org

A young Lyndon B. Johnson recovers under a blanket of Western Union telegrams: lbjlibrary: April, 1937: By the end of the congressional campaign LBJ had come down with appendicitis. Here he is recuperating after emergency surgery, covered in congratulatory telegrams, at the Seton Infirmary, in Austin, Texas.  LBJ Library photo 37-4-2. Photo by Neal Douglass/Austin Statesman. Usage: free with credit.
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A young Lyndon B. Johnson recovers under a blanket of Western Union telegrams:

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April, 1937: By the end of the congressional campaign LBJ had come down with appendicitis. Here he is recuperating after emergency surgery, covered in congratulatory telegrams, at the Seton Infirmary, in Austin, Texas. 

LBJ Library photo 37-4-2. Photo by Neal Douglass/Austin Statesman. Usage: free with credit.

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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.

Source: lbjlibrary.org

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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Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.  Crowds of excited people had lined the streets to wave to the Kennedys that afternoon.  The Presidential procession traveled along a ten-mile route that wound through downtown Dallas on the way to the Trade Mart where the President was scheduled to speak at a luncheon. The car turned off of Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m.  As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza.  Read more. This view is of the Presidential motorcade on Main Street that November afternoon. 
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Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. 

Crowds of excited people had lined the streets to wave to the Kennedys that afternoon.  The Presidential procession traveled along a ten-mile route that wound through downtown Dallas on the way to the Trade Mart where the President was scheduled to speak at a luncheon.

The car turned off of Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m.  As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza.  Read more.

This view is of the Presidential motorcade on Main Street that November afternoon. 

Source: jfklibrary.org

“I am a Texan and an American…what more could a man ask?” -George H. W. Bush George Bush began his congressional career in 1966 when he won a House of Representatives seat for Texas.  He was re-elected in 1968 and was the first Republican to represent Houston.  Here’s a photo of George and Barbara Bush from the mid-term election night,  November, 1966.  -from the Bush Library
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“I am a Texan and an American…what more could a man ask?”

-George H. W. Bush

George Bush began his congressional career in 1966 when he won a House of Representatives seat for Texas.  He was re-elected in 1968 and was the first Republican to represent Houston. 

Here’s a photo of George and Barbara Bush from the mid-term election night,  November, 1966. 

-from the Bush Library

Source: research.archives.gov