Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
52 min
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.
- Release date
- October 21, 1963
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- James Lipscomb as Narrator
- John F. Kennedy as Self - President of the United States
- George Wallace as Self - Governor of Alabama
- Robert F. Kennedy as Self - Attorney General of the United States
- Vivian Malone as Self - a Negro Student
- James Hood as Self - a Negro Student
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy as Self - Robert F. Kennedy's Son
- Burke Marshall as Self - Assistant Attorney General
- Nicholas Katzenbach as Self - Deputy Attorney General
- John Dore as Self - Deputy Attorney General
Crew
- Gregory Shuker · Producer