When I look back at the sixties I wonder why there weren't serious attempts on the life of Lyndon Johnson. After all, in the early to mid 60s, he and Martin Luther King, Jr were the two most hated men in the South. Zell Miller spoke for many when he said that by securing passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, LBJ forfeited his birthright as a Southerner. And of course there was George Wallace's demagogic primary challenge in 1964. The vitriol even extended to Lady Bird Johnson, who was taunted while campaigning for her husband in the Deep South in 1964, "Fly away, Blackbird."
As a 70s kid, I'd greatly appreciate if someone who lived through the bloody decade of the 60s could shed some light on this gloomy question.