Doris Kearns Goodwin joins WBUR’s Radio Open Source with Chris Lydon to discuss LBJ’s legacy in light of recent criticism of the portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the movie Selma (2014). “For LBJ, what is happening now, is that at least the 50-year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Great Society speech has put a rightful memory on people’s minds of what he DID accomplish in civil rights and social justice,” says Doris. Listen to the discussion here.
4 February 2015
