Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'


Lady Bird Johnson

Frank Langella
Sen. Richard Russell

Bradley Whitford
Hubert Humphrey

Stephen Root
J. Edgar Hoover

Todd Weeks
Walter Jenkins

Ray Wise
Senator Everett Dirksen