Anne Wheeler
Communications Director
LBJ Library & Museum
2313 Red River Street
Austin, TX 78705
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Release Date: November 01, 2004
What : An Evening With Max Holland
When: 6 p.m., Monday, November 1, 2004
Where: LBJ Auditorium, LBJ Library and Museum, 2313 Red River St.
Admission: Free for Friends of the LBJ Library. $10 for non-members
In his latest book, Max Holland uses archives from the LBJ Library and Museum to present the momentous telephone calls President Johnson made and received as he sought to stabilize the country and keep the government functioning in the wake of November 22, 1963.
The transcripts begin on the day of the assassination and reveal the often chaotic activity behind the scenes as a nation in shock struggled to come to terms with the momentous events.
The transcripts illuminate Johnson's relationship with Robert F. Kennedy, which Holland says flared instantly into animosity; the genuine warmth of his dealings with Jacqueline Kennedy; his contact with the FBI and CIA directors; and the advice he sought from friends and mentors as he wrestled with the painful transition.
Johnson biographer Robert Dallek writes, " The Kennedy Assassination Tapes fills a significant hole in our understanding of Lyndon Johnson's response to John F. Kennedy's assassination. The book is a welcome antidote to the assertions about LBJ's involvement in JFK's death. It sets a standard of scholarship that every writer on the assassination should imitate."
Mr. Holland has worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for more than twenty years. In 2001, he won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for a forthcoming narrative history of the Warren Commission. He is a contributing editor at The Nation and The Wilson Quarterly, and his articles have also appeared in The Atlantic, American Heritage, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. From 1998 to 2003 he was a research fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Mr. Holland will be signing copies of his book from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. in the Lobby of the LBJ Auditorium prior to his address.