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Civil Rights President Signs Historic Bill. LS of Washington DC street, Capitol Building in BG. Upward shot of the Capitol and an American flag. LS the the Washington Monument. MS of the Lincoln Memorial. A mother and her son and daughter look up at the Lincoln Memorial. Upward CU of the Lincoln Memorial, CU of his face. WS of the White House and lawn. PAN from a chandelier to a room of applauding men as Lyndon Baines Johnson shakes hands. He sits at a desk with a radio. He speaks about the passing of the Civil Rights bill. The men stand and applaud. Martin Luther King Jr. can be seen clapping. LBJ signs the bill. LBJ and MLK jr. shake hands and LBJ gives him a pen. J Edgar Hoover receives a pen. Robert Kennedy receives 6 pens