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Why SXSW Doc ‘Lady Bird Diaries’ Represented a ‘Delicious Opportunity’ for Filmmaker Dawn Porter

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Addie Morfoot Contributor Busy documentarian Dawn Porter will debut her latest project, “The Lady Bird Diaries,” March 10 at SXSW.

The all-archival doc, which will bow on Hulu later this year, relies on 123 hours of personal and revealing audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during her the presidency of her husband, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The tapes, which were not publicly released until 2017, reveal the critical role the former First Lady played in LBJ’s White House as a close advisor and trusted political partner.Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson began her recording diary shortly after the assassination of John F.

Kennedy in November 1963 and kept recording through her family’s departure from the White House in January 1969. Julia Sweig spent five years researching the diaries for her 2021 biography “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight,” which she turned into an eight-part podcast that formed the basis for Porter’s 90-minute docu. “I found a document that’s a strategy memo that Lady Bird wrote to LBJ in May of 1964,” Sweig, an executive producer on the project, told Variety. “He was worried that he might not be able to carry off actually being the President on his own.

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