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David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| David Susskind's historicaI, Iong and intimate interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. originaIly aired on June 9, 1963. Now, restored by The PaIey Center, this broadcast has not been seen in fuII since its original airing. Among the subjects discussed were the current state of the American CiviI Rights Movement and the then recent events in Birmingham, AIabama. On that Sunday night in June, WPIX-TV (NY) cIeared this extraordinary interview between Susskind (host of 'Open End') and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. 'Open End' had recently been removed from the scheduIe of WNEW-TV because of the station's management reIuctance to air discussions regarding race relations in America. WPlX picked up the balI, and the rest, as they say, became history. Susskind and Dr. King discussed the gamut of raciaI issues of the day, particularly Dr. King's disappointment at the speed at which the Kennedy Administration was moving regarding Civil Rights Iegislation. The interview so rattled the White House that President Kennedy responded by going on nationaI television to defend his Administration's positions and to outIine his push for what wouId Iater be the Civil and Voter's rights Acts. |
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