American Experience — Season 1, Episode 7: Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

Episode synopsis

An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defied the courts by refusing to integrate the University in 1963. The film offers unprecedented access to the Oval Office as well as to strategy meetings held by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

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TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Great San Francisco Earthquake
• E2Radio Bikini
• E3Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
• E4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
• E5The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
• E6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
• E8Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
• E9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
• E10That Rhythm, Those Blues
• E11The Radio Priest
• E12Hearts and Hands
• E13Views of a Vanishing Frontier