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This is the official invitation to the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson and his vice president Huber Humprey. This was the second presidential inauguration of President Johnson, but the first to take place after an election. His first inauguration was in 1963 aboard Air Force One after the assasination of his predecessor, President Kennedy. This invitation is for Johnson’s second term in the office of the president which took place in 1965. 

Pastel on Paper

artist: Vladian Hogea

By Thom “Tex” Wheeler.

acrylic on canvas 40"x30"

Extraordinary signed portrait of American author and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

Shepard Fairey Limited Print

"Gun Culture"

Jim Marshall captured what at first glance is regarded as an innocent child playing with a toy gun in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1963.

In many ways, I see this image as predicting the increase in gun violence that has taken place in the ensuing years in New York City as well as the rest of the country. Thirty-three thousand people per year lose their lives from guns, and I attribute this to an American gun culture that glorifies gun ownership and puts gun rights ahead of safety. Jim Marshall's image was ominous to begin with, but it was important to me that I use the American flag and gun violence articles in the art, to make the connection between an ingrained gun culture as part of the fabric of America and the resulting devastatingly high statistics of gun violence.

This set includes the official invitation to President Johnson’s second inauguration in 1965. Along with a very rare handwritten note by the president on a copy of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. As vice president in 1963, Johnson addressed a crowd in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to honor the one hundredth anniversary of the battle and the famous address by President Lincoln in its aftermath.

The note on the copy of the Gettysburg Address reads “These words are as much of an important today as they were when Lincoln uttered them.” 

By Gerald Johnson

Mixed Media

First and third photographs courtesy of Cade Martin

Found in Ballroom