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