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Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter • WXXI-TV

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Liz Carpenter on phone on Air Force One

In celebration of Women’s History Month, WXXI presents this new documentary on the legacy and life of one of American history’s unsung heroes, Liz Carpenter.

Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter airs Monday, March 17 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

Shaking It Up: The Life & Times of Liz Carpenter offers an up-close look at the pioneering journalist, high-ranking White House aide, and women’s rights leader. The film is produced and directed by Peabody award-winning filmmaker Abby Ginzberg and Liz’s daughter, Christy Carpenter.

The film recounts Carpenter’s powerful story through new, candid interviews with LBJ’s daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb; feminist leader Gloria Steinem, legendary journalists Dan Rather and Bill Moyers, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, and the late U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson. The film features never-seen home movies, photos, interview clips of her on Meet the Press, The Today Show and The David Frost Show, and rarely-shown artifacts, including Carpenter’s initial handwritten draft of LBJ’s first remarks given as President in the immediate aftermath of JFK’s death, which she referred to as “probably the most important 58 words I ever wrote.” 

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