Polarized by very different personalities and ideologies, President Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater attacked each other with gusto — and in the process opened the door to a modern era of campaigning that features highly negative TV advertising campaigns.

Bombs Away features interviews with, among others, former Rep. Barry Goldwater, Jr.; Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, daughters of President and Mrs. Johnson; Pat Buchanan, former advisor to multiple Republican presidents; Joseph Califano, former special assistant to Johnson; Victor Gold, who worked on the Goldwater presidential campaign; Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer and presidential historian; Richard Goodwin, former advisor to Johnson; Joanne Bland, civil rights activist; Sid Davis, journalist who attended Johnson’s swearing-in aboard Air Force One; former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee; Robert Mann, author of Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds; and Prof. Larry J. Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.