Bill Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public television, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the U.S. media. Since 1990, Moyers has been President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. He lives in New York City, United States.
Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, to father John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and mother Ruby Moyers (née Johnson), he was raised in Texas.
He started his journalism career at sixteen as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger in Marshall, Texas. In college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In 1954, then U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as a summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson's personal mail. Soon after, Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. While in Austin, Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations – owned by Lady Bird Johnson, wife of then U.S. Senator Johnson. During the academic year 1956–1957, he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, as a Rotary International Fellow. In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Moyers served as Director of Information while attending SWBTS. He was also a Baptist pastor in Weir, Texas.
Bill Moyers Journal is an American television current affairs program that covered an array of current affairs and human issues, including but not limited to economics, history, literature, religion, philosophy, science, and most frequently politics. Originally, Bill Moyers executive produced, wrote and hosted the Journal. WNET in New York produced it and PBS aired it from 1972 to 1976.
In 1979, following a nearly three-year hiatus, many presidential members of PBS announced that Bill Moyers Journal would return for a second series. The second series covered a broader range of issues in depth. This included election coverage and documentary footage from several U.S. states, among them Florida, Texas, Illinois, D.C. and Nevada. In addition, among its pop-culture coverage, the Journal reported on the 25th anniversary of the premiere of the long-running NBC talk program The Tonight Show. Like the first installment, the second one was produced by WNET in New York City, and was aired on PBS. However, the second installment and consequently the series ended in 1981.
Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones' - Bill Moyers & Chris Hedges
What the 1% Don't Want You to Know
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Bill Moyers | 2014 (Full Interview)
[PBS] The Mystery of Chi - Bill Moyers (Full-Length)
Henry Giroux on 'Zombie' Politics
Noam Chomsky Interview with Bill Moyers (Improved Quality) Part 1
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | William K. Black on Fraud | PBS
Bill Moyers talks to Christopher Hitchens (2002)
Elizabeth Warren on Fighting Back Against Wall St. Giants
Bill Moyers interviews Richard Wolff
The Secret Government: Bill Moyers (1987)
Inequality for All
John Bogle and Bill Moyers Discuss Modern Day Capitalism
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Rage on the Radio | Full Segment | PBS
Plot
A portrayal of the Johnson presidency and its spiraling descent into the Vietnam War. Acting on often conflicting advice from his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and other advisers, President Johnson finds his domestic policy agenda for the Great Society overtaken by an ever demanding commitment to ending the war. It also depicts his political skills as he crosses swords with political foes such as Bobby Kennedy and Governor George Wallace. Despite support and encouragement from stalwart friends such as Clark Clifford, Johnson realizes his management of the war no longer has the confidence of the American people and announces that he will not seek the nomination of the Democratic party for the the 1968 election.
Keywords: 1960s, air-strike, american-president, anti-war-movement, baby, beagle, black-and-white-scene, black-sheep, bombing, cabinet
Beyond the battlefields of Vietnam. Inside the halls of power. A different kind of war would decide the fate of a nation.
While one war was being fought in Vietnam another was being fought in the White House.
Senator Everett Dirksen: If this is a defeat, I would hate to see a victory.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Pack your suitcase, we're goin' to Vietnam.
Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: [Looking at the fighter jet escort next to Air Force One] Are they ours? Dean, Dean!::Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: Are they ours?::Lyndon Baines Johnson: I sure fuckin' hope so.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Haven't you been paying attention? Hell, they got hundred-year-old women re-supplying them!
Lyndon Baines Johnson: He doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: How many planes will we lose?::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: 20 to 25.::Lyndon Baines Johnson: How many casualties?::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: 50.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: 50 to 300 is my estimate, and if the bombs miss, it can go as high as 12,000, with fifty percent of these civilians and fifty percent of those killed.::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: Of course, we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets.::Lyndon Baines Johnson: But you do miss sometimes. And this time you could hit a Russian ship. And the bomber pilot will be a kid from Johnson City, Texas, and that'll be the kid that starts World War III, thank you very much.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: They don't need damn trucks! Weren't you watching? They've got hundred-year-old women hauling crap! What do you want me to do, kill everyone's grandmother in that place?
George Ball, Undersecretary of State: Clark, I can't tell you how grateful I am to finally have an ally at the barricades.::Clark Clifford: Well, it's just what makes sense, George. Not to Bob McNamara, but to me. A million men was straight out of your memo of October of last year. An impressively persuasive document, in my opinion.::George Ball, Undersecretary of State: All 67 pages of it? Well, it's true I haven't shown much restraint on the subject. If the President brought you in, it must be because I'm like... an old, broken record now.::Clark Clifford: Then there'll be two of us - scratchy and irritating as hell.
Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: The bridge is a major target, and we've never hit it. Chances of civilian deaths will be almost zero.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: I say 100 to 500, possibly more!::Lyndon Baines Johnson: Which is it? 500 or zero?
Walt Rostow: Mr. President, the Stennis committee is up in arms over our holding back on these bombing targets! Bob's testimony is coming up, and it'll take some heat off him if some of these could be cleared up before his appearance.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: I think I can take the heat without padding my resume with more bombing missions.
Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones' - Bill Moyers & Chris Hedges
What the 1% Don't Want You to Know
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Bill Moyers | 2014 (Full Interview)
[PBS] The Mystery of Chi - Bill Moyers (Full-Length)
Henry Giroux on 'Zombie' Politics
Noam Chomsky Interview with Bill Moyers (Improved Quality) Part 1
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | William K. Black on Fraud | PBS
Bill Moyers talks to Christopher Hitchens (2002)
Elizabeth Warren on Fighting Back Against Wall St. Giants
Bill Moyers interviews Richard Wolff
The Secret Government: Bill Moyers (1987)
Inequality for All
John Bogle and Bill Moyers Discuss Modern Day Capitalism
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Rage on the Radio | Full Segment | PBS
Consuming Images (Bill Moyers documentary from 1990 about the public mind and the media culture)
Bill Moyers Interviews Keith Olbermann
Bill Maher Interviews Bill Moyers: The conscience of a nation Pt 2
Andrew Bacevich: Moving Beyond War Moyers & Company BillMoyers.com
Toni Morrison and Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers Essay: The End Game for Democracy
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | David Simon Part 2 of 2 | PBS
Economist Richard Wolff on Capitalism Run Wild
Bill Moyers on Plutonomy
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | David Simon Part 1 of 2 | PBS
Isaac Asimov on Bill Moyers World of Ideas pt 1
Noam Chomsky Interview with Bill Moyers (Improved Quality) Part 2
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Michael Pollan Interview, Pt. 1 | PBS
Bill Moyers Interviews David Stockman on Crony Capitalism of Washington & Wall St.
Bill Moyers interview with Ursula K. LeGuin about "Lathe of Heaven"
Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity
Jeremiah Wright On Bill Moyers Part 1 (Full Interview)
August Wilson with Bill Moyers
Clive James Interviewed by Bill Moyers on "Cultural Amnesia"
Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason With Pema Chodron - Part 1
Poet Robert Bly on The Great Persian Poets ; Hafez and Rumi ; Interviewed by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers interviews Errol Morris on 'The Thin Blue Line' (1989)
Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Borders
Fell my heart away
Its time I call your name
oh darling I can`t help it
Im walking on the moon
Never ended story
woman meet a man
and loosing concentration
what`s happening to me?
Hey! you pull the wires... of my love
in every way
Hey! my desire is your love
right away
youuuu pull the wires
the`re moving me babe
ooooh love`s desire... loving youu oh oh
pull the wires
I will surrender right away
you`ve got to me ooooh
I`m loving your move babe
Why do I remember?
memories bring me down
high and low emotions
are moving me around
Never ended story
A woman meet a man
oh darling I can help it
together you and I
Hey! you pull the wires... of my love
in every way
Hey! my desire is your love
right away
youuuu pull the wires
they`re moving me babe
ooooh love`s desire...
you`re turning me all around
Ohhhh I desire
you`re even more than I can say
you`re all for me
when I`m down and all alone
you`re my soul and inspiration
are you on my side out in the sea Oh!
you guide me every day
and the love will lead the way
c`mon! come on! just stay with me ohh ohh
youuuu pull the wires you`re moving me babe
ooooh love`s desire... loving you ohhh
pull the wires
I will surrender right away
you`ve got to me