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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.
31. Juli 2014 · 12K views 9 years ago. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment First aired on ABC television in 1963, Robert Drew's cinéma vérité documentary chronicles ...more. Crisis: Behind a...
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment: Directed by Robert Drew. With James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy. Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy.
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- 1963-10-21
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.
Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999. 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 ...
16. Jan. 2009 · By Fred Kaplan. Jan. 16, 2009. THE first movie that Barack Obama should watch in the White House screening room is a 45-year-old television documentary about John F. Kennedy’s showdown with Gov ...
President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, work to get two black students enrolled at the University of Alabama despite Gov. George Wallace's ban.
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