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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. originaIIy 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 Civil Rights Movement and the then recent events in Birmingham, Alabama. 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 recentIy been removed from the schedule of WNEW-TV because of the station's management reluctance to air discussions regarding race reIations in America. WPIX picked up the baIl, and the rest, as they say, became history. Susskind and Dr. King discussed the gamut of racial issues of the day, particularly Dr. King's disappointment at the speed at which the Kennedy Administration was moving regarding Civil Rights legislation. 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 would later be the Civil and Voter's rights Acts. |
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