The Lady Bird Diaries

Matt Roush says...

“I was walking onto a stage for a part I had never rehearsed,” says Lady Bird Johnson, the accidental First Lady who redefined the role in her own folksy yet elegant way. She is heard in excerpts from more than 100 hours of personal audio diaries recorded following the assassination of John F. Kennedy 60 years ago and throughout the embattled administration of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson. These were years marked by social progress with the signing of the Civil Rights Act but also by turmoil over the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. “Are we a sick society?” she wonders.

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