Crisis

Introduction and comments following Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment, 1963, from TCM's Alicia Malone and special guest K.J. Matthews.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Crisis, 1963.

What's called a cold open nowadays, plus music, documentarian Robert Drew begins with Alabama Governor George Wallace at the capital in Montgomery, then students Vivian Malone and James Hood, then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and his brother the president, in Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment, 1963.

Documentarian Robert Drew offers all-but unprecedented material, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, consulting with aides about the admission of African-American students to the University Of Alabama, in Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment, 1963.