Article: History Channel apologizes for show implicating LBJ in JFK death.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Maria Recio

WASHINGTON _ The History Channel has apologized to Lady Bird Johnson and her family ``with deep regret" and to its viewers for a controversial program that implicated former President Lyndon Johnson in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and will air a special Wednesday night with three historians who discredit the original telecast.

The History Channel reviewed the program, ``The Guilty Men," after protests by former Presidents Carter and Ford and former first lady Johnson as well as the vocal intervention of four former LBJ aides.

Larry Temple, president of the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation in Austin, said he was ...

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