Video: 'An Encounter With History: Dedication of the LBJ Library, 5/22/71. MP2073.'

(Saturday, May 22, 1971, 11:30 a.m. CDT) — The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, more commonly known as the “LBJ Presidential Library,” was dedicated today in Austin, Texas on the campus of the University of Texas, with U.S. President Richard Nixon and former U.S. President Johnson attending.

Today’s ceremony took place against a backdrop of anti-Vietnam War slogans, chanted from a distance. Some 1,200 Texas highway patrolmen and Texas Rangers kept about 2,000 demonstrators several blocks away from the library.

Video: 'LBJ Library Dedication -- Nixon Super-8 home movie'

The LBJ Library houses 45 million pages of historical documents, including the papers of President Johnson and those of his close associates and others.

Video: 'SYND 23/05/71 LYNDON JOHNSON AND PRESIDENT NIXON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS'