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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment documentary

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Original title

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Year

1963

Running time

52 min.

Country

United States

Director

Robert Drew

Cast

Cinematography

Gregory Shuker (B&W)

Producer

ABC News, Drew Associates. Distributor: Direct Cinema Limited

Genre

Documentary | Politics

Synopsis

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 enrolling in the university, the Kennedy administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause.

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