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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) provided filmmaker Robert Drew, his crew and his audience the rare opportunity to watch a President of the United States deal with a national crisis. In this case, the crisis of the title was the attempted integration of the University of Alabama by African-American students by the Kennedy Administration and the machinations of then Governor ...
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) provided filmmaker Robert Drew, his crew and his audience the rare opportunity to watch a President of the United States deal with a national crisis. In this case, the crisis of the title was the attempted integration of the University of Alabama by African-American students by the Kennedy Administration and the machinations of then Governor ...
Documentarian Robert Drew offers all-but unprecedented material, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, consulting with aides about the admission of African-American students to the University Of Alabama, in Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment, 1963.
Create Subpage. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is a 1963 documentary film by Robert Drew. It is a record of the June 1963 "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", regarding the judicially-mandated racial integration of the University of Alabama, the opposition to the same from Governor George Wallace, and the subsequent intervention by ...
Feb 20, 2023 · Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment 1963 Not Rated 52mGovernor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the... Skip to main content We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us!
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.
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The cameras follow the President, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Wallace, and the two students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, as the crisis unfolds and up through its dramatic climax, including rare scenes of decision-making inside the Oval Office. The film delivers on its promise to show history in the making, and not just in the grand ...
