Title: LBJ signs Civil Rights Act

ID: 2336_043
Date: 1960s
City: Washington, D.C.
Region: North America
Country: United States
Duration: 00:02:52
Color: B/W
Sound: Sound
Video format: Beta
Film format: NA
HD format: NA
License: Rights Managed
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1964 B/W w/ Sound CIVIL RIGHTS BILL Universal Newsreel (narrated by Ed Herlihy). Civil Rights, President Signs Historic Bill. VS EXT Washington, D.C. in 1964 w/ Capitol Building in BG, Reflecting Pool & Washington Monument, Lincoln statue in Lincoln Memorial, EXT White House. INT White House, LBJ makes statement about Civil Rights Act. Calls it attempt to eliminate last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. LBJ signs Civil Rights Act with multiple pens, hands pens to Senator Everett Dirksen (Republican of Illinois), Senator Hubert Humphrey (Democrat of Minnesota), MLK, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. PAN Dirksen & Humphrey shaking hands LBJ speech says purpose is to unite and not divide...to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice

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