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1964 - Color, President Johnson, Documentary: Poverty Tours, The

Reel Number: 221728-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1964,1960s

Country: USA

Location: Appalachia,Cumberland,Huntington,Indiana,Maryland,Pennsylvania,Pittsburgh,South Bend,West Virginia

TC Begins: 15:11:00

TC Ends: 15:33:59

Duration: 00:22:59

Aerial of Air Force One thru clouds w/ LBJ VO about trip to see problems of poverty. 15:11:46 Interior of cockpit. View out past motors across farmland “we have declared a war on poverty...” 15:12:31 CU band member playing trombone, MS of band; MCU of kids & adults listening, watching. Drum majorettes, crowd applauding, sign: All the way for LBJ, other signs. 15:13:27 Title: The Poverty Tours. People sitting on sign: welcome to South Bend... at airport. President Johnson & wife touring trade school, talking w/ trainees; shaking hands in grade school. Waving at people outside windows. Talking at podium (MOS). 15:15:02 Army helicopter taking off over crowds; view from cockpit. 15:15:23 Lady Bird & LBJ off TWA plane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Signs, shaking hands. POV into city across bridges, thru streets in motorcade parade, waving crowds. Thru neighborhoods, standing on car during stop w/ megaphone. CUs. 15:16:56 Ext. United Steelworkers Local 1272 w/ welcome sign. LBJ at microphone (MOS), listeners. Speaking to children / kids. Take off of Marine helicopter & touring Appalachia. Shaking hands, greetings. Meeting w/ unemployed & 8 kids on porch of cabin for photographers. POV past people along streets. Mayo State Vocational School & LBJ & Lady Bird touring. Coal country signs; Huntington, West Virginia meeting w/ seven governors of states of Appalachia. 15:20:21 LBJ w/ daughter Lynda walking from helicopter, people watching on his second tour of Appalachian states in Cumberland, Maryland. CU Lynda Bird at microphone. LBJ talking (MOS) CUs. 15:21:06 Motorcade thru Cumberland city street & large crowd; talking from courthouse steps. 15:21:55 Martinsburg, West Virginia & boarding Air Force One for Columbus, Ohio, Lockbourne AFB; greeting people at airport. People watching, applauding. 15:23:09 Red Carpet, Welcome Knoxville Chamber of Commerce at foot of steps & descending from Air Force One to crowd & photographers. Lynda Bird w/ bouquet. LBJ & daughter speaking to university students from limousine. 15:24:13 LBJ into Knoxville Coliseum w/ crowd. Seymour Johnson Air Force base. Visit to sharecropper farm, talks to farmer on porch, Rocky Mount, Tennessee. 15:25:2? At podium in Atlanta, Georgia. Shaking hands on street. Gainesville, Florida w/ band, LBJ at lectern gesturing. 15:26:20 View from window of motors as Air Force One takes off. Aerial over river & farmland. 21May64 Lady Bird in plane looking at map of eastern Kentucky. Greeting crowd at airport, motorcade. Visiting rural communities & school children. Walking along creek bottom to farmhouse of ?? Robertson, wife & 7 children. Touring property 15:28:46 Motorcade to Lick Branch one-room school & eating hot lunch in classroom. Flag raising. 15:29:39 Breathitt High School Coliseum & dedication ceremony. University of Kentucky wood utilization center. 15:30:36 Leaving by helicopter; speaking at Kentucky Federation of Women’s Club. 15:31:08 Motorcade past poor w/ LBJ VO. LBJ talking w/ people various situations. Faces. 15:33:16 White House from across fountains on south lawn. 15:33:32 Still of LBJ signing anti-poverty bill. The End. Campaigning; Great Society Programs; 1964; Color Film; 1960s; NOTE: entire sold at per reel rate.

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