| LBJ Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress in regard to the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 828 |
| Catalog #: | 437543 | |
| Clip Number: | 437543-9 | |
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| Timecode: | 00:16:04 - 00:18:25 | |
| Location: | Washington D.C. | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: Address to Congress LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) | |
| Description: | President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ) "Our most immediate tasks are here on this Hill. First, no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." TLS Congress clapping. "We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law. I urge you again, as I did in 1957 and again in 1960, to enact a civil rights law so that we can move forward to eliminate from this Nation every trace of discrimination and oppression that is based upon race or color." TLS Congress clapping. "There could be no greater source of strength to this Nation both at home and abroad. | |
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