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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Robert Drew's fascinating documentary takes a look at the battle between President Kennedy and Alabama Governor George Wallace. Kennedy and his brother Robert are seen trying to get Wallace to step down and allow two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama but the governor stands to his ground.
The film centers on the University of Alabama's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door integration crisis of June 1963. Drew and the other filmmakers, including D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock, wer Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is a 1963 direct cinema documentary film directed by Robert Drew.
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 ...
Apr 8, 2022 · Behind the Yemen Truce and Presidential Council Announcements. The UN has brokered a surprise truce in Yemen’s long-running war, while the country’s internationally recognised president has handed over his powers to an eight-man council. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Peter Salisbury explains the significance of these developments.
Mar 17, 2022 · The mutiny only worsened the financial crisis, and on 21 September Britain was forced off the gold standard. 7 In October, at the insistence of its Conservative members and their supporters who wanted to secure a working majority in the Commons, the National Government went to the country, campaigning on an anti-socialist and patriotic platform, and in favour of tariffs. Taking the decision to ...
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Oct 26, 2018 · Having effectively covered John F. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign with “Primary”, Robert Drew was granted full access by the Kennedy White House to cover one of the president’s crucial defining moments in “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment”. By June 1963 it had been almost a full decade since “Brown v.
