Michael Stuhlbarg in 2018

Mark Updegrove, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lawrence Wright and Ali Soufan

On Tuesday evening, Feb. 27, 2018, Friends of the LBJ Library members previewed the new Hulu limited drama series The Looming Tower. Following a screening of the first episode, Mark K. Updegrove of the LBJ Foundation moderated a discussion with Ali Soufan, the former FBI Special Agent depicted in the series; actor Michael Stuhlbarg, who portrays White House Counterterrorism Official Richard Clarke, and who has most recently appeared in films The Shape of Water and Call Me By Your Name; and Lawrence Wright, author and executive producer of The Looming Tower book and TV limited series.

The Looming Tower show, based on Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA at that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11.