1964 (film)

2014 documentary film about key events in 1964 America January 2025 January 2025 1964 poster.jpg Stephen Ives Stephen Ives Oliver Platt Peter Rundquist United States English Amanda Pollak George O’Donnell Amy Foote Andrew Young Haskell Wexler 1 hour 54 minutes Insignia Films PBS 2015 1 1964 is a documentary film produced by Insignia Films for PBS' American Experience series about political, social, and cultural events in the United States for the calendar year 1964.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cast-crew/1964-credits/ An Insignia Films production for PBS's American Experience, WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014 PBS 2017-08-23 2016-05-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20160530235440/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cast-crew/1964-credits/ dead It is based partly on the Jon Margolis book The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cast-crew/1964-credits/ An Insignia Films production for PBS's American Experience, WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014 PBS 2017-08-23 2016-05-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20160530235440/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cast-crew/1964-credits/ dead The documentary depicts the year 1964 as significant and epic in that following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in late 1963, 1964, as a presidential election year, becomes a departure point for American history, with lasting effects today. It is also the year of the British Invasion led by the Beatles, when Cassius Clay fights Sonny Liston for the World Heavyweight Championship, the year after Betty Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, is published, and the year Republican activist, Phyllis Schlafly's book, A Choice, Not an Echo, is published.American Experience; 1964; Interview with Phyllis Schlafly, Conservative Leader http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-086348h98h en 2020-05-29 It is also the year of Freedom Summer, an initiative by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to register African-Americans in Mississippi, the subsequent murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, three CORE activists, in Mississippi by white supremacists that created a national sensation, and the Harlem riot of 1964, culminating in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley. A recurrent theme of the film is its departure as a presidential election year, with President Lyndon B. Johnson running as the expected Democratic Party nominee and the nomination of U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater selected through a grassroots campaign for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, that defines the future divisions of the US political party competition. The 1964 interviews were conducted in 2014 and made accessible online in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting1964 Interviews https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/1964-interviews americanarchive.org 2020-05-29 in 2018. Commentators Mark Kurlansky – writer Lee Edwards – historian – part of 1964 Goldwater Campaign Jon Margolis – author of The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 Leah Wright Rigueur – historian Rick Perlstein - writer Hodding Carter III – newspaper editor of family newspaper, The Delta-Democrat Times of Greenville, Mississippi Robert A. Caro – author Robert Dallek – historian Dan T. Carter - historian Claire Bond Potter – historian Stephanie Coontz – historian Susan J. Douglas – historian Richard A. Viguerie - conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly – President of Illinois Federation of Republican Women, an office she has held since 1960 John H. Bracey, Jr. – historian Jann S. Wenner – founder of Rolling Stone magazine Reverend Ed King – civil rights activist Dave Dennis – civil rights activist (close friends with James Baldwin's brother) References External links http://insigniafilms.com/1964/ tt3154432 Category:2015 American television episodes Category:American Experience Category:2015 television films Category:2015 films