The Joe Bev Experience
"Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady"
This radio hour is an anthology series representing the depth and
breath of the 40-plus year career of Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) in
audio storytelling, from documentary to radio drama, and new and
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This time, in honor of Women's History Month, Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady, written, produced, directed, and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua.
One
of the most licensed audiobooks on The Public Radio Exchange and
iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady is veteran NPR
producer Joe Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary examining the
challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. The hour
combines never-before-released archive audio, gleaned from thousands of
hours of recordings housed at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and
Museum, period news broadcasts, private conversations with Lyndon Baines
Johnson, and the words of Lady Bird Johnson from an interview that has
never before been released to the public.
"Lady Bird did such wonderful work. I really enjoyed hearing the back story behind the Hy-way beautification act passed during the Johnson Administration."
-Lorie Kellogg |
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Bevilacqua spent nearly five months listening to the rare tapes and
traveled to Washington, D.C., to interview Mrs. Johnson's colleagues
and friends. The program features Lyndon Johnson Administration
staffers Liz
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Carpenter, Bess Abell, and Nash Castro, Washington Post
owner Katherine Graham, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Director Harry Middleton, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Director Robert Glass Breunig; Lady Bird biographer Jan Jarboe
Russell, and First Ladies Betty Ford and Barbara Bush. Other voices
heard on the program include Kirk Douglas and Helen Hayes reading
from LBJ's and Lady Bird's love letters. The production was produced
in association with KUT Radio in Austin, Texas, and overseen by a
panel of scholars and experts, including Lewis Gould, retired
University of Texas (UT) at Austin Professor of History; Walt
Rostow, UT Professor Emeritus, Elspeth Rostow, former dean of the UT
LBJ School of Public Affairs; Carl Anthony, Washington, D.C.,
historian; and Don Carleton, director, The Center for American
History at UT.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
& Lady Bird Johnson |
**** Informational, Inspiring
... a love letter to a woman admired ...
"'Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady,' written,
narrated and produced by Joe Bevilacqua, is a love letter to a woman
admired not only by her fellow Texans but also by the world. The
one-hour program was among four winners in the best documentary
category at The New York Festivals."
- Clay Smith, Austin American-Statesman
"Informational, Inspiring. This is an excellent, uplifting journey
through Lady Bird Johnson's life, and her growth and transition to
first lady under tragic conditions. It's wonderful to hear her
voice, rendered here in excerpts from interviews she's given and
speeches she's made. It is especially poignant to hear a portion of
her first audio diary entry, made the day after JFK's assassination.
Nuanced choices of music are a production plus, but the strength is
in the spoken word. Wisely chosen excerpts create a rich experience.
The hour contains a wide range of voices, from historians to those
who worked with her or know her, and they pinpoint her influence on
LBJ, and on the capital, and the nation -- particularly in the areas
of environment, race, and education. She truly is a force for good."
- Atlantic Public Media
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