Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment by Robert Drew

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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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Cast

James Lipscomb

James Lipscomb as Narrator

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy as Self

George Wallace

George Wallace as Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy as Self

Vivian Malone

Vivian Malone as Self

James Hood

James Hood as Self

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