Yes, it is pretty difficult to slander LBJ. I am sure that the movie is full of historical inaccuracies. It is true that ML King’s real opponents were John and Robert Kennedy, not LBJ, but it is not politically correct to criticize the Kennedy’s.
One movie review of “Selma” in the Wash. Post said that the film was going to tell the truth about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
NO FILM will ever be made by Hollywood, BET, Oprah, etc. that tells the WHOLE TRUTH about MLK.
Why?
Because there were significant parts of Dr. King’s life that involved knowingly or unknowingly hiring/working with at least two Soviet KG operatives (the congressional outted Stanley Levison, King’s financial, legal and political advisor and Jack O’Dell, his personal secretary and CPUSA/Soviet organizer in the South (HCUA hearings, 1956).
There were some foreign aspects of King being a security risk (re blackmail) that have only peripherally been mentioned.
Nobody has the balls to tell the whole truth.
However, this does not diminish the good deeds and ideas that King put forth.
The problem is telling the “whole” story at one time.