What in hell is going on in this photo? Never seen it before.

[graywarrior]

[morningfog]

1. Good question.

[rug]

2. Oh, Lyndon was just trying to catch some horseflies again.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. I got lucky

on the Google:

http://www.scottcalonico.com/yelling-lbj-the-real-story/

Cool photo!

[niyad]

6. thank you for finding this information

[graywarrior]

7. Ahhh, thank you!

[rrneck]

4. Looks like LBJ is yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to shaddup with the engine noise...

http://www.scottcalonico.com/yelling-lbj-the-real-story/

(Johnson) also pressed for a joint appearance of the Democratic candidates somewhere in Texas. They arranged the meeting at the airport in Amarillo, where campaign advance men stopped all air traffic during the brief ceremonies so that the candidates could address the crowd. But they had not counted on the Republican-leaning airline pilots, who deliberately ran the engines of their planes in order to drown out the speakers. At the close of the ruined appearance, a photographer snapped a concerned Kennedy placing his hands on Johnson’s shoulder, trying to calm his angry, gesticulating running mate.

But this is just off some dude's blog, so there's that.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Wow--Republican douchebaggery spans many decades. Same as it ever was.

[rrneck]

11. It's just politics.

From what I understand, it's not nearly as bad as it used to be around the nineteenth century or so.

[sheshe2]

5. This, gray~

JFK tries to calm a spitting-mad LBJ

FEBRUARY 21, 2013


On the campaign trail in 1960, John F. Kennedy was booked to speak at the Amarillo airport. They had paused air traffic for the event, but that didn’t keep some Republican pilots from disrupting the speech by running their engines.

This photo from the Amarillo Globe-News shows Kennedy ineffectually trying to placate his running mate Lyndon B. Johnson who was angrily expressing his disapproval of the pilots’ rudeness…



This photo from the Amarillo Globe-News shows Kennedy ineffectually trying to placate his running mate Lyndon B. Johnson who was angrily expressing his disapproval of the pilots’ rudeness…


Contrasting himself from LBJ, JFK handled the affair with relaxed aplomb, joking that this must be Nixon arriving. He carried on with his speech, because “They can’t stop the truth anyway. I don’t care how much that engine warms up.”

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/02/21/jfk-tries-to-calm-a-spitting-mad-lbj/

[NYC_SKP]

8. "I'll cut your fucking pecker off you jackass"

Is what has been suggested were his words.

And Jack is like, dude-chill.

[TlalocW]

9. Baseball game

Lyndon is trying to get one more beer, and Kennedy is telling him, "Dude, you've had enough."

TlalocW

[NBachers]

12. An instant of history, frozen in time

Some times it feels like it just happened.

Some times it feels like another life, another planet.