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American Experience: 1964 - Interview with Hodding Carter III (Part 2)
About this film
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time -- Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan -- and brings out from the shadows the actions of ordinary Americans whose frustrations, ambitions and anxieties began to turn the country onto a new and different course.
Directors & creators
WGBH
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Gulf of Tonkin incident, John F. Kennedy assassination, Beatles, 1964 presidential election, Jon Margolis, The Last Innocent Year, WGBH, American Experience, civil rights movement
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