Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson
Species:	Human
Job:	President, Vice President
Affiliated with:	United States government
Place of origin:	Earth
First mentioned in:	Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"]
First appearance:	Who Killed Kennedy [+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"]

Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States. (PROSE: Tricky Dicky ^[+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"])

Biography

Lyndon Baines Johnson served as Vice President of the United States under John F. Kennedy. Following Kennedy's assassination, Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy ^[+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"], AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race ^[+]Loading...["1963: The Space Race (audio story)"]) He would create the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy ^[+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"])

Due to his pursuit of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, he was reviled by the counterculture movement in the United States. (PROSE: Wonderland ^[+]Loading...["Wonderland (novel)"])

References

His waxwork replica appeared in Madame Tussauds when the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw visited to investigate the first Auton invasion of Earth. (TV: Spearhead from Space ^[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• He was played by Michael Gambon in the 2002 film Path to War.