Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
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
as Narrator
John F. Kennedy
as Self
as Self
George Wallace
as Self
as Self
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self
as Self
Vivian Malone
as Self
as Self
James Hood
as Self
as Self
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Robert Drew
Director
Director
Robert Drew
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Gregory Shuker
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Gregory Shuker
Producer
Producer
Gregory Shuker
Assistant Editor
Assistant Editor
Nicholas T. Proferes
Assistant Editor
Assistant Editor
