This silent Home Movie features Lucy (Luci) Baines Johnson, a very cute toddler, as well as footage of LBJ’s Austin office (at 0:57). Walter Jenkins sits and talks behind a desk. We see unidentified women staff members in the office. J.C. Kellam talks and smokes a cigar, and John Connally talks on the phone. An unidentified staff member talks and smiles at the camera. Sam Houston (LBJ’s brother) sits and talks in the office.

The middle section consists of the Johnsons looking at unidentified property on the east coast. The final section (at about 5:40) is of Coke Stevenson at the KTBC radio station.  Coke was soon to play a very important role in shaping LBJ’s destiny.

LBJ Library. Lady Bird Johnson Home Movie #18: The Johnsons in Austin in the 1940’s - 1950’s. Public domain. 

Source: tshaonline.org

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