Bill Moyers: A Lifetime Preserved at the Library of Congress – Library of Congress
Half portrait of Bill Moyers, smiling, turned slightly to the camera, smiling. He’s wearing a dark suit, a blue shirt and a red tie. Bill Moyers, the veteran television journalist, died on June 26. He was 91.Home
Bill Moyers: A Lifetime Preserved at the Library of Congress
June 27, 2025, Posted by: Neely Tucker
Bill Moyers, who died yesterday at the age of 91, was at the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium one night in the fall of 2023 to mark the preservation of more than 1,000 of his public television programs in The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration between the Library and the Boston public media producer GBH.
His relationship with the Library went back to the summer of 1954, he told the packed auditorium, when he was a 19-year-old from a little town in Texas, in D.C. for a summer internship with U.S. Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Mr. Moyers during CAMPAIGN 84 in 1984. (CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images)On his first day, Johnson’s top aide took him to the Library’s Congressional Research Service as the place to do his background work for Johnson’s policies and work on Capitol Hill.
“I came over and I was shown what they do, it’s incredible,” Moyers told the crowd, 69 years later. “All summer, I was much smarter than anyone knew I was because it was coming from the Congressional Research [Service] … I’ve been a fan of the research office and the process here and the Library all my life.”
The night was a crowning moment to one of the most influential careers in American media. The AAPB Bill Moyers collection preserves more than 50 years of his work, an invaluable look at American history as it was happening.
The collection “will allow viewers for generations to come to see what mattered to us over the years,” he told the Library, “and how we covered our times through the stories of contemporary democracy and its struggle to survive and thrive as well as the perceptions of many of our society’s foremost thinkers and creators.”
Moyers, born during the Depression in Hugo, Oklahoma, became an ordained Baptist minister and picked up a journalism degree from the University of Texas after his internship with Johnson. He worked for the Peace Corps and then returned to work for Johnson after he became president, eventually serving as his press secretary from 1965 to 1967.
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