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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.
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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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 ...
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.
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.
President John F. Kennedy wants to enforce the integration of the University of Alabama. His younger brother Robert F. Kennedy is the Attorney General of the United States. George Wallace is the Governor of Alabama and insists on fighting the federal government.
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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. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
