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JFK & LBJ: A TIME FOR GREATNESS

LBJ Presidential Library
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PBS
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Tue. August 4. at 9pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 | Discover how LBJ worked behind the scenes to ensure JFK’s legacy and transformed America.

 
President LBJ is chiefly remembered for the Vietnam War. But 50 years ago, he engineered two of the most important laws Congress ever passed, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This special examines how LBJ transformed America.
 

Airs for a second time on August 6, 2015, 9 p.m.
 

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