
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.'

as Lyndon B. Johnson

as Martin Luther King, Jr.

as Lady Bird Johnson

as Sen. Richard Russell

as Hubert Humphrey

as J. Edgar Hoover

as Walter Jenkins

as Senator Everett Dirksen

as Howard W. Smith

as Ralph Abernathy

as Stokely Carmichael

as Bob Moses

as Fannie Lou Hamer

as Roy Wilkins

as David Dennis

as Deke Deloach

as Robert McNamara

as Senator Eastland

as Coretta King

as Walter Reuther

as Senator Strom Thurmond

as Senator Fulbright

as Senator Byrd

as Stanley Levison

as Luci Johnson

as Speaker John McCormack

as Rep. Bill McCullough

as Rep. James Corman

as Governor Sanders

as Governor Johnson

as Deputy Price

as Aaron Henry

as Edwin King

as JFK's Secretary

as New Orleans Announcer

as MLK's Girlfriend

as Choir Director

as Secret Service Agent

as Older Man

as Joe Alsop