Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1963-10-21
  • User Rating: 6.9/10 from 20 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 52min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: ABC News
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Robert Drew
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Summary

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.

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  • James Lipscomb

    as Narrator
  • John F. Kennedy

    as Self
  • George Wallace

    as Self
  • Robert F. Kennedy

    as Self
  • Vivian Malone

    as Self
  • James Hood

    as Self
Directing Robert Drew Director
Production Robert Drew Executive Producer
Camera Gregory Shuker Director of Photography
Production Gregory Shuker Producer
Editing Gregory Shuker Assistant Editor
Editing Nicholas T. Proferes Assistant Editor

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