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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is a 1963 direct cinema documentary film directed by Robert Drew. The film centers on the University of Alabama 's " Stand in the Schoolhouse Door " integration crisis of June 1963.
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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Jan 16, 2009 · The night the crisis was settled, President Kennedy gave a 15-minute speech on national television explaining his action and declaring that the time had come to make all American citizens free.
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment. Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.
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Just as the Civil Rights movement was heating up in 1963, President John F. Kennedy faced an historic test of leadership: African-American students Vivian Malone and James Hood planned to matriculate at the newly integrated University of Alabama, but the state's governor, the staunch segregationist George Wallace, declared he would defy the law ...
Thanks to portable cameras and lightweight sound equipment, filmmaker Robert Drew and his team were able to follow presidential candidate John F. Kennedy from very close up during the Democratic primary in 1960. The result was his groundbreaking film Primary.
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Crisis is about the Kennedy administration's maneuvering to thwart Governor George Wallace's attempt to personally block the admission of two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending the University of Alabama. The process by which this historical incident is captured on film is nothing short of transfixing and wholly unique.
