Yep, that is the one. It surely wasn’t on an airplane. It seems LBJ and the man winking are happy. The shape of LBJ’s cheek seems to indicate a smile.
No plane.
This is the
“wink” photograph, a shot of LBJ receiving a wink from Congressman Albert Thomas after the swearing-in, with all the onerous implications it has in David Lifton’s Best Evidence, where the photo appeared in 1980. Trask supplies no reason why this particular negative original is missing, no indication that he asked Stoughton about it, no suggestion that he is even aware of its controversy, despite references to Lifton in the same chapter.
http://www.umsl.edu/~thomaskp/lbj.htm