– This nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
#OnThisDate, June 10, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Robert Drew, 1963) is the #FilmDuJour.
#RobertDrew #DAPennebaker #JohnFKennedy #RobertFKennedy #JFK #politics #documentary #TVMovie #USA #1960s #cinemastodon #film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge Dec 14: filmed in Alabama on #NationalAlabamaDay
George Wallace, #Alabama governor, refused to allow Black students into the University. In Crisis (1963), #RobertDrew et al followed Pres. Kennedy and AG R.F. Kennedy. They filmed everything; from tense phone calls, private moments (one of #RFK's daughters on the phone with a perplexed Dept. Katzenbach), and many, many shots in which nothing – which is everything – is said ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/crisis-behind-a-presidential-commitment-1963-ljvd
y on the phone, seen from the back. #Bales2023FilmChallenge December 14: filmed in Alabama on #NationalAlabamaDay In what he dubbed “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”, George Wallace, #Alabama governor, blocked Black students from walking into the University so he could uphold his inaugural promise of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segr...
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