President Lyndon B. Johnson in September-October 1966. MP 878. 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 [email protected].

LBJ travels, greets crowds
LBJ shaking hands, boarding Convair

President & Mrs. Ferdinand E. Marcos, Philippines, visit to the White House, 9/14/1966

Dedication of the Summersville Dam, Summersville, West Virginia, 9/3/1966
LBJ arrives at the airport
LBJ speaks at Summersville Dam

Ceremony marking the 100th Anniversary of Dallastown, Pennsylvania, 9/3/1966

LBJ trip through Michigan and Ohio, 9/5/1966
LBJ speech at the Detroit Municipal Airport, Detroit, Michigan, 9/5/1966
LBJ speech at an AFL-CIO Rally, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, 9/3/1966
Sign reads: "Welcome LBJ on Labor Day Local 876 RCIA" in crowd; tilt down to young girls holding signs

LBJ speech at the Kellogg Regional Airport, Battle Creek, Michigan, 9/3/1966
LBJ speech at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Michigan, 9/3/1966
LBJ speech at the Montgomery County Fair, Dayton, Ohio, 9/3/1966

General Ne Win, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma, visit to White House, 9/8-9/1966
Gen. Ne Win Arrival ceremony
Military parade

B&W still photographs, newspaper headlines

Gemini 2 rocket launch, Cape Kennedy, Florida
Astronauts connecting rocket to Agena rocket, astronauts walking in space
Astronauts walking in space, earth in background

Presentation of the Medal of Honor posthumously to family of Petty Officer Marvin G. Shields, USN, White House Oval Office, 9/13/1966

LBJ, Barbara Shields (2 year-old daughter of slain Marvin Shields) in White House Rose
Fade in to LBJ presenting MOH to Mrs. Joan Shields, Barbara Shields in White House Oval
President and Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines) visit at the White House, 9/14-15/1966

President and Mrs. Marcos arrive
LBJ, Pres. Marcos Talk in the White House
B&W still photographs of LBJ, Pres. Marcos

LBJ signs the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act, White House Cabinet Room, 9/16/1966
Close-up of pens sitting on desk, pan right to Federal Mines Safety Act

LBJ signs bills

LBJ visit to the LBJ Ranch, Texas

Scenes at the LBJ Ranch
Lady Bird Johnson arrives
Lady Bird Johnson, Luci Johnson Nugent, Patrick Nugent, Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Nugent, 250 neighborhood women on the LBJ Ranch Lawn
LBJ, others tour the LBJ Ranch

Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (West Germany) State Visit, 9/26-27/1966

Chancellor Erhard arrives at White House
LBJ, Chancellor Erhard, Sec. Robert McNamara, others aboard Air Force One en route to Cape Kennedy, Florida, 9/27/1966

LBJ, Erhard boarding Air Force One for Cape Kennedy
LBJ, Erhard, Sec. Robert McNamara, others conversing, Air Force One

LBJ, Chancellor Erhard, others tour NASA facility, Cape Kennedy, Florida
LBJ speaks at the Vehicle Assembly Building, Cape Kennedy, Florida
LBJ, Chancellor Erhard aboard Air Force One

President Leopold Senghor (Senegal) visit at the White House, 9/28/1966

National Conference of Editorial Writers, Carnegie Endowment Building, New York City, 10/7/1966
LBJ debarking Convair, greeting unidentified men, waving

LBJ, U.N. Sec. Gen. U Thant outside the Carnegie Building

Close-up of street sign reading: "United Nations Plaza"
Wide shot of Carnegie Endowment bldg.
LBJ, Sec. Dean Rusk, Goldberg departing building

Motorcade to Newark, New Jersey, and speech to Democratic Rally

LBJ returns to the White House
Dissolve to aide holding leashes to Blanco, beagles, walking across White House Lawn to greet LBJ as he is approaching
Lady Bird Johnson petting Blanco, beagle, Lady Bird Johnson walking on across White House Lawn


Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visit at the White House, 10/10/1966

B&W still photographs of LBJ, Gromyko
LBJ, Gromyko in White House Oval Office

LBJ speech at the Social Security Administration Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, 10/12/1966

LBJ speech at the Verrazano Monument, Staten Island, New York, 10/12/1966
Motorcycle police, motorcade passing through crowd-lined streets of Brooklyn
Street sign reads: "Verrazano Narrows Bridge Staten Island New Jersey"

LBJ speech at a Columbus Day dinner, Hotel Saint George, Brooklyn, New York, 10/12/1966

LBJ speech at Rodney Square, Wilmington, Delaware, 10/13/1966
LBJ speech

LBJ speech prior to departing for the Asian-Pacific Trip, Dulles International Airport, Washington, DC, 10/17/1966
Sec. Dean Rusk speaking from podium, LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson standing to the right
V.P. Hubert Humphrey, LBJ conversing on red carpet at foot of Air Force One steps