Overview
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.'
Cast
- Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson
- Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson
- Frank Langella as Sen. Richard Russell
- Bradley Whitford as Hubert Humphrey
- Stephen Root as J. Edgar Hoover
- Todd Weeks as Walter Jenkins
- Ray Wise as Senator Everett Dirksen
- Ken Jenkins as Howard W. Smith
- Dohn Norwood as Ralph Abernathy