When you watch this audio slideshow you can’t help but think wouldn’t it be amazing if the whole radio series that its taken from, Empire of Liberty, had been a bi-media project. That’s exactly what duckrabbit hope to achieve.
Audio slideshow: Paralysis of a President |
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| By the end of his presidency in 1968, Lyndon Johnson – the man thrust into the Oval Office after the murder of John F Kennedy – was troubled in his sleep by nightmares in which he felt paralysed.
At the time, US troops were making little progress in Vietnam and the anti-war movement at home was growing. Then two prominent figures – the civil rights leader Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy – were shot dead. Here, Professor of International History David Reynolds – from the BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty – looks at President Johnson’s last days in the White House. Photos courtesy Getty Images and AP. Slideshow by Paul Kerley. Publication date 18 June 2009. |
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