Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment First aired on ABC television in 1963, Robert Drew's cinéma vérité documentary chronicles how President John F. Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy clashed with Governor George Wallace over the enrollment of African-American students Vivian Malone and James Hood at the University of Alabama. (52 minutes) Following the screening, NPR's Michele Norris Johnson moderates a discussion featuring former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather; journalist Charlayne Hunter Gault, who in 1961 was one of the first two African American students to enroll in the University of Georgia; Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of George Wallace; and Dr. Sharon Malone, sister of Vivian Malone Jones. This program is presented in partnership with the 2014 March on Washington Film Festival.
