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Jan 16, 2009 · The first movie that Barack Obama should watch in the White House screening room is a television documentary called “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.”
Shot primarily during a two-day period surrounding the University of Alabama integration crisis on June 11, 1963, the film follows President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and the students involved, Vivian Malone and James Hood.
This documentary -- the first and only documenary to show a U.S. President in the oval office making decisions in the midst of a crisis -- offers a look inside the White House during a thirty-hour period starting June 10, 1963, as President John F. Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, are seen handling a crisis ...
Jul 31, 2014 · Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment First aired on ABC television in 1963, Robert Drew's cinéma vérité documentary chronicles how President John F. Kennedy and his brother Attorney...
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Feb 20, 2023 · CRISIS BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT (1963) Uncut. Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy.
When Governor George Wallace literally stands in the schoolhouse door to block the admittance of two African-American students to the all-white University of Alabama in June 1963, President Kennedy is forced to decide whether to use the power of the presidency to back racial equality.
On June 11, 1963, the Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, attempted to flout federal law and deny entrance to the University of Alabama to two black students who had been accepted. This documentary shows us the tense events of that day in a brilliant, stirring way.
