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A Great Society?

Archive film charts the origins and decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, the president's attempt to bring the US into the 20th century. Charles Wheeler traces a member of a family featured in a BBC film about white poverty in Kentucky in the sixties. Janet, now over 40 and a single mother-of-two, reveals how Lyndon Johnson 's domestic programmes transformed her family's life.

English
  • Originally Aired February 25, 1996
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
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