Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Name: Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Genre: Documentary
Released: 21 Oct 1963
Rating: 6.90
Cast: James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone

1963-10-21 United States of America 52 minutes.

6.90 21 votes

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Overview

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from enrolling in the university, the JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999.

Year 1963

Studio ABC News, Drew Associates

Director Robert Drew

Crew Robert Drew (Director), Gregory Shuker (Producer), Robert Drew (Executive Producer), Gregory Shuker (Assistant Editor), Nicholas T. Proferes (Assistant Editor), Gregory Shuker (Director of Photography)

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Language English