[VIDEO] Mar. 20, 1965 | LBJ Press Conference (Opening Statement)

Mar. 21, 1965 - President Johnson, accusing Alabama Governor George Wallace of shirking a “solemn responsibility” to protect civil rights marchers in Alabama, announced yesterday he had deployed more than 3,000 men — including some Federal troops — to do the job.

The Alabama racial situation dominated a Johnson news conference televised and broadcast nationally from the windswept front lawn of the President’s ranch home near Johnson City, Tex.

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