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American Experience: LBJ

Grade Levels:	9 - 13+
Core Subject(s):	Social Studies
Website:	http://www.uen.org/dms/
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Episodes:

• Episode 01-Beautiful Texas

  Lyndon Baines Johnson was a poor boy from the Texas hill country who ascended to the pinnacle of world power as the 36th president of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat as war and civil turmoil ravaged the country. Film clips, photographs, interviews, and personal recollections by friends and colleagues, as well as speeches and commentary by historians, tell the story of LBJ.

  Length:	01:02:22

• Episode 02-My Fellow Americans

  Lyndon Baines Johnson was a poor boy from the Texas hill country who ascended to the pinnacle of world power as the 36th president of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat as war and civil turmoil ravaged the country. Film clips, photographs, interviews, and personal recollections by friends and colleagues, as well as speeches and commentary by historians, tell the story of LBJ.

  Length:	00:54:24

• Episode 03-We Shall Overcome

  Lyndon Baines Johnson was a poor boy from the Texas hill country who ascended to the pinnacle of world power as the 36th president of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat as war and civil turmoil ravaged the country. Film clips, photographs, interviews, and personal recollections by friends and colleagues, as well as speeches and commentary by historians, tell the story of LBJ.

  Length:	01:04:29

• Episode 04-The Last Believer

  Lyndon Baines Johnson was a poor boy from the Texas hill country who ascended to the pinnacle of world power as the 36th president of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat as war and civil turmoil ravaged the country. Film clips, photographs, interviews, and personal recollections by friends and colleagues, as well as speeches and commentary by historians, tell the story of LBJ.

  Length:	00:51:52

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