

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
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1963-10-21 • 0h 52m
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.
- Directors
- Robert Drew

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Visit website1963-10-21 • 0h 52m
6.9/10 • 21
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.
- Directors
- Robert Drew
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsJames Lipscomb
Narrator
John F. Kennedy
Self
George Wallace
Self
Robert F. Kennedy
Self
Vivian Malone
Self
James Hood
Self
Nicholas Katzenbach
Self
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- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- alabamacivil rightsjohn f. kennedyracial segregationintegrationoval officeracismuniversitycinéma véritédirect cinema