Release Date

21 Oct, 1963

Runtime

00:52: (HH:MM)

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 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.

Original Title

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

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Actors

James Lipscomb

John F. Kennedy

George Wallace

Robert F. Kennedy

Vivian Malone

James Hood

Nicholas Katzenbach

Crew

Robert Drew

Robert Drew

Gregory Shuker

Gregory Shuker

Gregory Shuker

Nicholas T. Proferes

Richard Leacock

D. A. Pennebaker

Hope Ryden

James Lipscomb