Raise The Dead

Beginning 2/28/22

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Lyndon Baines Johnson is now the president of the United States. How far will he go to keep it that way.

Thanks to tapes LBJ made of his own phone conversations we get a view into history like we’ve never heard before on Raise The Dead. Power and paranoia on full display. His battles with old nemesis Bobby Kennedy lead a man on the brink of landslide to draft a letter of resignation. All the while, Vietnam looms is the distance.

Meanwhile, Barry Goldwater deals with a floundering campaign as a prime example of DC’s excess continues to fester.

All that and the birth of the modern television campaign ad in the season finale of Raise The Dead.

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Barry Goldwater and Bernie Sanders are exact opposites. One is the father of Conservatism and the other heralds the modern rise of Democratic Socialism.

Yet beyond their visions for the country, they are almost identical in how their own parties viewed them as dangerous, radical extremists. And more to the point, how hard both worked to kill their campaigns. Barry’s story in 1964 gives us a blueprint of what happened behind closed doors in the Democratic primary of 2020.

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John F. Kennedy is preparing to run for re-election amongst heightened racial tensions and the defection of support from Southern Democrats. He and his brain trust decide to begin the Kennedy ‘64 campaign in Dallas, TX to show they still intend to be competitive in the Bible Belt.

Meanwhile, Republican support begins pooling around upstart Barry Goldwater despite establishment worries that his brand of inflexible conservatism is irresistible to fringe groups like the John Birch Society.

After an unforeseen tragedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson takes charge.

The new season of Raise The Dead arrives October 4th, 2020

All of your lingering questions are answered. Was the series intentionally biased toward Nixon? What connections between Dick and Hillary didn’t make the cut? How did the narrative come together?

Plus… we reveal the theme of the next season!

Election day arrives in 1960 and 2016.

In 1960, Richard Nixon is about to begin his journey as humiliated laughing stock to redemption. In 2016, Hillary Clinton hopes she’s at the end of her own eight year odyssey. In 1960, John F. Kennedy waits with his loyal team of family and friends. In 2016, Donald Trump waits with mercenaries who pass out their cards to the press so they can secure work after their current boss falls short.

At the end, both losing sides cry foul. So what is the truth about the election conspiracy of 1960? Did JFK really use illegal means to get elected? We explore in the season finale of Raise The Dead.

The grueling road to the White House leaves tolls emotional, mental and physical on Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

The misunderstood 1960 televised debates, the role of LBJ in settling the South, Nixon’s meltdown, the Kennedy media brilliance and cold-hearted handling of a pair of famous race issues.

Election Day is nigh. Who will survive to see it?

It’s the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. Can the Kennedys pull of the impossible and upset the entire party power structure? What about two-time nominee Adlai Stevenson who just arrived flanked by Kennedy foes Eleanor Roosevelt and Hubert Humphrey? What about the Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson who is certainly the only Democrat the Civil Rights-phobic South would be happy with?

What does the first convention of the primary era tell us about egos, attacks and the decisions that change a candidate’s life forever?

A Game of Thrones-level intrigue abounds on this episode of Raise the Dead.

Richard Nixon is about to make the Republicans the party of civil rights and it could cost him his career.

The origin story of the most notorious American politician in modern history eventually sees him facing an insurrection in his own party on the eve of his coronation as their nominee. But before that a poor kid from Southern California has to battle his way to the top of the political food chain.

Commie bashing, the most watched television broadcast in history and the moment the GOP changed forever on this episode of Raise The Dead.