LBJ: The Accidental President

The world changes in an instant.

Dallas, November 22, 1963. Shots ring out in Dealey Plaza, and within minutes the halls of Parkland Hospital erupt into chaos. As doctors fight to save President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is rushed into hiding—caught between fear, shock, and an unsettling awareness that history is suddenly tilting in his direction.

This immersive audio drama recreates the dramatic, minute-by-minute struggle for control of a nation in crisis. Based entirely on sourced historical dialogue, sworn testimony, phone transcripts, press conferences, and first-hand accounts, Part One plunges listeners into the raw confusion, political maneuvering, and hidden tensions that unfolded behind closed doors on one of America’s darkest days.

From Johnson’s secret confinement in a Parkland exam room, to Robert Kennedy’s anguish at Hickory Hill, to the frantic movements of agents, aides, and political operatives across Dallas and Washington, The Accidental President exposes the tangled web of ambition, fear, loyalty, and power that emerged in the crucial hours before and after JFK’s death.

Intercut with flashbacks revealing LBJ’s brutal climb through the Senate, his fraught relationship with the Kennedys, and the bitter 1960 convention battles that shaped his destiny, this episode paints an intimate portrait of a man whose contradictions—brutal and compassionate, insecure and calculating—would define a presidency born out of tragedy.

Part political thriller. Part historical reconstruction.
All true.

Step inside the room where power shifted… and where the 36th President of the United States first answered to his new name:

“Mr. President.”

Read the accompanying screenplay while you listen.
https://unstructured.locals.com/post/4349850/lbj-by-mark-groubert-part-one-the-accidental-president