Another story calling attention to the fictional elements of the movie Selma:

“Too bad, though, that the movie went Hollywood on Lyndon Baines Johnson, who, as if from the grave, has bellowed his protest. In its need for dramatic tension, “Selma” asserts that King had to persuade a recalcitrant Johnson to introduce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The movie depicts Johnson authorizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to smear King and — as King himself suspected — try to drive him to suicide. It is a profoundly ugly moment.

But a bevy of historians say it never happened.”