Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

1963 en 52 minutes

Rating: 6.9

Plot

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 JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999.

Trailer

Cast

James Lipscomb

James Lipscomb

Narrator

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Self

George Wallace

George Wallace

Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Self

Vivian Malone

Vivian Malone

Self

James Hood

James Hood

Self

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