Wheeler on America

A Great Society? (1x2)

Air date: Feb 25, 1996

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.