WE REMEMBER ELEANOR (TV)
Summary
This documentary tributes the late First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on what would have been her 100th birthday. The program includes interviews with Eleanor Roosevelt's children Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Elliott Roosevelt, and James Roosevelt; her grandchildren Frank Roosevelt, John R. Boettiger, Nina Roosevelt Gibson, and Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves; her niece Eleanor Roosevelt Wotkyns; her secretary Maureen Corr; historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; Trude W. Lash, chairman of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Dorothy I. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women; Lillian Roberts, New York State commissioner of labor; Dr. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State; biographer Joseph P. Lash; Bayard Rustin, president of the A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund; William J. vanden Heuvel, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Estelle Linzer, vice chairman of the United Nations Association; Henry Morgenthau, executive producer of "Prospects of Mankind"; historian Blanche Wiesan Cook; consumer advocate Esther Peterson; and Edna Gurewitsch. Also included are clips from Eleanor Roosevelt's television series "Prospects of Mankind," with Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lord Bertrand Russell, Robert McKenzie, Governors Nelson Rockefeller of New York and Luis Mu–oz Marin of Puerto Rico, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche, East African political leader Julius Nyerere, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Sen. Jacob Javits (D-N.Y.), President John F. Kennedy, and Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: WNEW
- DATE: November 30, 1983
- RUNNING TIME: 0:53:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T85:0195
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: N/A
- SERIES RUN: WNEW (New York, NY) - TV, 1984
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Paul Noble … Executive Producer
- Doris Bergman … Producer
- Louis P. Levine … Director
- Thomas Tierney … Composer, Music from "First Lady" composed by
- Theatreworks/USA … Music (Misc. Credits), Music from "First Lady" produced by
- Margaret Truman Daniel … Host
- John R. Boettiger
- Ralph Bunche
- Blanche Wiesan Cook
- Maureen Corr
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Nina Roosevelt Gibson
- Edna Gurewitsch
- Dorothy I. Height
- Jacob Javits
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Joseph P. Lash
- Trude W. Lash
- Estelle Linzer
- Robert McKenzie
- Henry Morgenthau
- Munoz Marin, Luis
- Julius Nyerere
- Esther Peterson
- Lillian Roberts
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Frank Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
- James Roosevelt
- Bertrand Russell
- Bayard Rustin
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves
- Adlai Stevenson
- vanden Heuvel, William J.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Wotkyns