In the Room With JFK and RFK

From the documentary film “Crisis“ by Robert Drew (1963). Meeting at the White House the day before the anticipated confrontation with Governor Wallace on the doorsteps of the University of Alabama over the admission of two black students to the University. Alabama was the last State to resist integration of its schools. President Kennedy was considering a speech on the issue at this meeting with many of his advisers, including Ted Sorenson. Robert Kennedy was the only person in the room advocating that the