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Journalist and broadcaster Bill Moyers will speak at the 31st annual wreath laying and birthday commemoration honoring President Lyndon B. Johnson
Journalist and broadcaster Bill Moyers will speak at the 31st annual wreath laying and birthday commemoration honoring President Lyndon B. Johnson
Bill Moyers Guest Speaker
Journalist and broadcaster Bill Moyers will speak at the 31st annual wreath laying and birthday commemoration honoring President Lyndon B. Johnson Friday morning, Aug. 27, at the Johnson family cemetery on the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall.
Moyers was a staff member of the president's administration.
The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
The public is invited to participate, and this free event includes a ranger-guided bus tour of the ranch, which is still Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's home.
Among Moyers' extensive career achievements and numerous accolades during three decades in broadcasting is the recognition of 30 Emmy awards, and he was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995.
He has produced distinguished public television programming, including Bill Moyers Journal and, most recently, the weekly program NOW with Bill Moyers.
Viewers will remember Moyers as a senior news analyst for the CBS Evening News and chief correspondent for the acclaimed documentary series, CBS Reports.
A survey of television critics has placed Moyers among the ten journalists who have had the most significant influence on television news.
Moyers served as deputy director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration and then Special Assistant to President Johnson from 1963-1967, including two years as White House press secretary. He established Public Affairs Television in 1986, which has hundreds of hours of award-winning public television programming to its credit.
Those wishing to attend the wreath laying/birthday commemoration must arrive at LBJ State Park and Historic Site's visitor center, one mile east of Stonewall on U.S. Highway 290, in time to catch a 10 a.m. bus to the cemetery.
Following the ceremony, those attending are invited to the visitor center for refreshments.
In honor of President Johnson, this commemoration and all subsequent tours of the LBJ Ranch on Aug. 27 will be free of charge.
When this story was prepared, here was the front page of PCOL magazine:
This Month's Issue: August 2004
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