JFK and LBJ: A Time For Greatness
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Synopsis
The secret history of the Civil Rights Act

Remembered only as the President who took America deeper and deeper into a war it could not win, we have all forgotten that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the man who championed two laws that changed America and the world - the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965.

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, exactly fifty years later, we use secret White House recordings to show how LBJ took on the legacy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy after he was gunned down in Dallas. To many he shared all the bigotry and hatred of his fellow southern senators, but his actions, along with the telephone conversations that he secretly taped, tell a different story. We will hear eyewitness accounts from those who were closest to LBJ revealing how he worked relentlessly with Martin Luther King, of the Civil Rights movement, and how over the next eighteen months they worked together to transform America. 


Duration
1 x 60' 1 x 90' also available
Definition
HD
Genre
History
Subgenre
Factual
Producer
Colonial Pictures