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1991 television documentary film
LBJ is a 1991 two-part
television documentary film about
Lyndon B. Johnson , the 36th
president of the United States . Produced by
PBS for
The American Experience (now American Experience ) documentary program, it recounts Johnson's life from his childhood to his presidency up to his death. Written, co-produced and directed by David Grubin and narrated by
David McCullough , the film first aired on PBS in two parts on September 30, 1991.
Interviewees
Robert Baker , Senate aide
George Ball , Undersecretary of State
Larry Berman, Vietnam historian
William P. Bundy , Assistant Secretary of State
S. Douglas Cater,
Washington, D.C. reporter
Clark Clifford , presidential adviser
John Connally , campaign aide; advisor
Ava Cox, cousin
Robert Dallek , biographer
Homer Dean, campaign supporter
Rebecca Doggert, Newark Head Start
Ronnie Dugger , biographer
Daniel Ellsberg , Defense Department staff
James Farmer , civil rights activist
J. William Fulbright , Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Doris Kearns Goodwin , biographer
Richard Goodwin , presidential speechwriter
Lewis Gould, historian
Nicholas Katzenbach , Attorney General
Eliot Janeway , economist; family friend
Lady Bird Johnson , First Lady
Donald Malafronte, aide to Mayor of
Newark
Harry McPherson , Senate staff
Rep. James Pickle, campaign worker
George Reedy , White House press secretary
Dean Rusk , Secretary of State
Howard Schuman , Senate aide
Sergeant Shriver , Peace Corps director
E. Babe Smith, Pedernales Electric Co-op
James Thomson Jr., National Security Council staff
Jack Valenti , special assistant to the president
Elizabeth Wickenden, family friend
Roger Wilkins , Johnson administration attorney
Lee Williams, aide to Senator Fulbright
Andrew Young , civil rights activist
Critical response
Walter Goodman of
The New York Times gave LBJ a positive review, stating that "Mr. Grubin demonstrates the mastery of the television documentary that makes his work an absorbing start to a new season of 'The American Experience.' [...] It is a powerful story, powerfully rendered."
[2]
Home media
LBJ was first released by
PBS on
VHS in two separate editions for both of its two parts,
[3] and was later given a single VHS release on September 23, 1997.
[4] PBS released the film on
DVD without extras on February 14, 2006,
[5] and later included it in an
American Experience DVD box set collecting its films about
United States presidents on August 26, 2008.
[6]
References
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"LBJ - Credits" .
PBS .
WGBH Educational Foundation . Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
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Goodman, Walter (September 30, 1991).
"Behind the Scenes in 'L.B.J.' To Catch the Good and the Bad" .
The New York Times . p. 13. Retrieved April 10, 2021 .
^ The American Experience: LBJ, Part I .
ISBN
0793606268 .
^ LBJ: The American Experience [VHS] .
ASIN
6304836511 .
^ Howard, Louis (March 2, 2006).
"LBJ" . DVD Talk . Retrieved April 10, 2021 .
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"American Experience: The Presidents Collection" .
Amazon.com . Amazon.com, Inc. 26 August 2008. Retrieved April 10, 2021 .
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